Hello everyone. Thanks for the all of the suggestions (as well as comiserating with me). Here I thought my lot with all the trees would be a great place to install several wire antennas (which it is) and never gave it a thought that being in a hole would present special challenges. Ron, thanks for your perspective: in every cloud there is a silver lining. What I've concluded is that: 1. Since it's unlikely I'll be able to get an antenna up above the street level looking south/southeast (covenants and such), I'll stop trying to get South America and focus on East/West directions. 2. Putting up a wire antenna N/S for reaching Europe is a definate possibility, along the side of the house. 3. I'll investigage putting up some type of vertical, hidden in the trees but at the street level, for 20m. Coax run will be rather long, though. Working at the roof level is not an option for this old man. 73, Clark Macaulay, KE4RQ _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
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