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That bodes well.. and it actually feeds into a happy accident.. I was delivered solid core thin wire which will in fact hold themselves up better.

I sawed down the mount section of a cheap aluminium 5/8 silver rod, removed the aluminium driven element... attached a 6.5m (roughly) 1.5mm copper wire and I plan a bunch of thin copper radials attached to the 3 screws at the bottom. Soldered onto eyelets/tags. The wire may make it a bit narrow band but good enough for the 1MHz of interest.

The goal here is a fast deploy 10m band 5/8 wave with as few compromises as possible. With short GP's I can get the benefits of some elevation (close to 1/2 wave above earth and keep some radials) hopefully this compromise will be the best one.

This looks like it will work out nicely. The tricky bit is taken care of.. the loading coil, already nicely housed and built in.

Once the chosen radials (probably 0.125 x 64) are on... tune up will be a snip, snip, snip job. I just want something I can throw up a fibre glass pole on the off chance 10m becomes open when I am playing on lower bands.

I want to make sure it sh*ts all over a T2LT for DX.. which won't be difficult.

<blockquote data-quote="TheBlaster" data-source="post: 757905" data-attributes="member: 58745">That bodes well.. and it actually feeds into a happy accident.. I was delivered solid core thin wire which will in fact hold themselves up better.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt="(y)" title="Thumbs Up&nbsp; &nbsp; (y)"&nbsp; data-smilie="27"data-shortname="(y)" />I sawed down the mount section of a cheap aluminium 5/8 silver rod, removed the aluminium driven element... attached a 6.5m (roughly) 1.5mm copper wire and I plan a bunch of thin copper radials attached to the 3 screws at the bottom. Soldered onto eyelets/tags. The wire may make it a bit narrow band but good enough for the 1MHz of interest.The goal here is a fast deploy 10m band 5/8 wave with as few compromises as possible. With short GP&#039;s I can get the benefits of some elevation (close to 1/2 wave above earth and keep some radials) hopefully this compromise will be the best one.This looks like it will work out nicely. The tricky bit is taken care of.. the loading coil, already nicely housed and built in.Once the chosen radials (probably 0.125 x 64) are on... tune up will be a snip, snip, snip job. I just want something I can throw up a fibre glass pole on the off chance 10m becomes open when I am playing on lower bands.I want to make sure it sh*ts all over a T2LT for DX.. which won&#039;t be difficult.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheBlaster, post: 757905, member: 58745"] That bodes well.. and it actually feeds into a happy accident.. I was delivered solid core thin wire which will in fact hold themselves up better.(y) I sawed down the mount section of a cheap aluminium 5/8 silver rod, removed the aluminium driven element... attached a 6.5m (roughly) 1.5mm copper wire and I plan a bunch of thin copper radials attached to the 3 screws at the bottom. Soldered onto eyelets/tags. The wire may make it a bit narrow band but good enough for the 1MHz of interest. The goal here is a [I]fast deploy[/I] 10m band 5/8 wave with as few compromises as possible. With short GP's I can get the benefits of [I]some[/I] elevation (close to 1/2 wave above earth and keep some radials) hopefully this compromise will be the best one. This looks like it will work out nicely. The tricky bit is taken care of.. the loading coil, already nicely housed and built in. Once the chosen radials (probably 0.125 x 64) are on... tune up will be a snip, snip, snip job. I just want something I can throw up a fibre glass pole on the off chance 10m becomes open when I am playing on lower bands. I want to make sure it sh*ts all over a T2LT for DX.. which won't be difficult. [/QUOTE]

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