[Antennas] Effective ways to use lots of land, trees and wire?

Fri Jan 16 17:49:05 EST 2009

How about V star. You'll get a high gain, all band, switcheable direction 
antenna . All you need are several wires ( 4 -7), as long as possible, put 
in different directions like a star and ballanced tunner.
73 Val LZ1VB
> I've got 12 acres, mostly wooded, lots of wire, and not a whole lot of
> money... I've got an 80m OCF about 50' in the trees now, which works
> reasonably well, but there ought to be a way to get more performance
> outa these trees and some more wire. I looked at rhombics, but they may
> be more directional than I'd want in a single stationary antenna. Any
> ideas on how I can put more wire up and get decent gain without high
> directivity? I could easily put up an antenna that's several
> wavelengths long at 80m, but most of the stuff I've found on-line i
> articles about how to get magic amounts of gain on all bands with small
> antennas...
>> 73s, AJ4LL