[HCARC] Successful Antenna Raising And Special Thanks To Club Member

[John Canfield]

Maybe the 5BTV is more particular and cantankerous than the 4BTV.  Years 
ago I had a roof-mounted 4BTV with radials and I certainly don't 
remember any tuning issues with it.  Glad you got it going!

John
WB5THT

On 9/22/2014 3:46 PM, Gary J - N5BAA wrote:
> Well with a certain amount of angst and frustration over conflicting manuals from DX Engineering and the manufacturer of Hustler 5BTV antennas (New-Tronics) we (Tony Moore, Gordon Green, and myself) were with a couple of hours of intensive antenna radial theory and practical instruction by Dale Gaudier, able to get Gordon Greens Hustler 5BTV vertical up and with SWR’s of between 1:1 and about 2.1:1 across the complete bands of 10,12,15,17,20, and 40 meters and tunable SWR’s across much of the voice section of 80 meters.  Our first attempts at elevating the antenna (per the manual – they recommend roof top mounting (fogetabout it)) with tuned elevated radials met with disaster – SWR’s 8-10:1 across most all bands.  Seems that both manuals conflict about tuning the traps on 10/15/20 with DX Engineering saying Yes you have to and New-tronics manual saying “Don’t touch the traps or you void the warranty”.  BTW, we ended up ground mounting the antenna with tuned radials – four per band, except for 12 and 17 which didn’t need any at all – I guess they were happy with all the other ones that were close to their length (10/15/20).  12 and 17 meters are added to the antenna by attaching two 1/4 wave wires on standoffs parallel to the antenna.