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*In an effort to get a?? VERTICAL ANTENNA ? up for the 20/17/15/10 meter bands, I tried setting up a 14 ft vertical antenna*
*made from old aluminum tubing, mounted 3 ft above ground, adjacent to a 20 ft vertical aluminum rain gutter - mounted just inches from it for close coupling.*
*Set up three radials - two were 13 feet and one was 33 ft. **No matching of any kind.*
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*Results were surprising as the rain gutter makes this vertical into a reasonable multi-band vertical for 20/15/10 meters.
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*Cost was almost nothing.*
*Fed with 50 ft of RG8X and a coax choke at the input to the antenna terminal.*
*I'll have to try it out this weekend on 20/15/10m digital and see if it radiates a low-angle DX signal.*
*de k3eui? barry*
Barry K3EUI
