[Elecraft] Low antennas in high places

[Mike Morrow]

Vic wrote:

>I would like to correspond with anyone who has tried portable QRP 
>operation from a high location, using a low horizontal antenna at the 
>edge of a sharp dropoff.

I always got great results operating from a bluff on Arkansas' Mount Magazine and similar locations, by running the ends of a dipole to adjacent outcroppings just above local ground level.  It even worked well on 80m.

Even when well away from a bluff edge, operating a dipole on an elevated plateau or ridge seems to work well.

Gotta love a resonant dipole!

73,
Mike / KK5F