[Elecraft] What Vertical Antenna Do I Need?

[Joseph Reed]

Keith,
 
Actually, the Butternut does cover all the WARC bands.  On 17 meters tuning it is a bit touchy, but on 10 MHz and 24 MHz it is very well behaved and gets out great.  Using a tuner I even get a match on 5 MHz.
 
I have confirmed around 309 countries on my Butternut.  And I live on a tiny city lot.
 
For the serious student of vertical antennas I would highly recommend "The Vertical Antenna Handbook" by Capt. Paul H. Lee, N6PL (SK).  Published by CQ,  my copy doesn't have an ISBN number, but the Library of Congress card number is 74-83411.

Regards,
 
Joe N9JR

----- Original Message ----
From: "Darwin, Keith" <Keith.Darwin at goodrich.com>
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2006 7:56:08 AM
Subject: RE: [Elecraft] What Vertical Antenna Do I Need?


Hey Fred,
[SNIP}

Butternut is a tried & true antenna.  Hustler 4BTV or 5BTV is very
inexpensive and works just fine, thank you.  Both of these require
radials & neither covers all the WARC bands.