[Antennas] Intro and question

[Rob Matherly]

Hi all;

Name is Rob, and my call's kc0bom.  New to list, operate CW about 99% of
the time.  Have a non-working Drake TR-3, and an MFJ 9040.  Been an Extra
for about 2 weeks.

Now that the intro is out of the way, here's the question :^)  I'm wanting
to play around with a NVIS setup, and was thinking about building a 3
element 40m beam pointing straight up (a little overboard, I know, but
it'll look neat :^)  Plus I live out in the country so I have plenty of
real estate for it).  Has anyone tried anything like this before?  I was
playing around with QuickYagi the other night and found that the antenna
would be rather big... about 40 some-odd feet tall and a reflector of about
70 feet.  Any way to "small it up" a bit?

72/73/oo
Rob, kc0bom
ARRL; FP Qrp -330; Live-Wire #442; IA QRP #143; SOC #497; QRPp-I #19

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