[Antennas] Questions!

[Osten B Magnusson]

Friends!

I was on this list some years ago and now I'm back again!
A question or two:

I'm living on an urban lot less than 1000 square meters, and
no space for more than one tower. I have been using an=20
inverted vee for a couple of years on 80 meter CW, more
than 230 DXCC-''entities'' worked, and now I'm going to use
it also on 17, 30, 80 CW - 3500 - 3225, 80 SSB 3575 - 3580
and 160 meters. My idea is to have relays in each leg adding
lengths when going from higher to lower frequencies. In this
case it means 4 relays in each leg, totally 8 relays.

As there is high voltage in the ends of the legs what kind of
light-weight relays can I use, not too expensive and easy to
get?

How will the 12 or 24 Volt DC lines to the relays affect the
antenna?

I think you may say it's simpler to use an antenna tuner but
NO, I don't like them...

Would like to get your answers to the questions and also
of course your opinion to the whole idea, thanks in advance.

By the way, I'm a DX'er but everything worked on 40, 20 and
10 meters, 12 is going to die, so no need for those bands.
I would like to put up a monoband beam for 30 meters but the
problem is to have that at 70 feet as I need a support higher
than that to get the beam rotatable inside the inverted vee,
probably impossible!

Hope to hear from you, all the best and 73 de

Osten SM5DQC   sm5dqc@algonet.se