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I was doing some antenna testing Saturday during the Labor Day weekend. I have been having some RF getting into my house wiring so I moved my antenna to a new location. During the test to see if I solved the RF intrusion problem I got a comeback while doing the audio test on AM 14. Someone came back to me from central California. I am in Boise Idaho so that was a pretty good contact. He was running a 3 element yagi and I was on my new built starduster type vertical I hung in a tree and used two counterpoise with. Test results were no RF intrusion and I got a DX contact. Success I'd say.

Feed point is 21 feet high. Hook at top allows hanging in tree. Counterpoise attached to 6 foot high fence at bottom of tree. Turns out antenna is pretty wide banded. I could use it with my 10 meter HF section on Yeasu 450D if I wanted to.
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<blockquote data-quote="Alan Blackmon" data-source="post: 683447" data-attributes="member: 49644">I was doing some antenna testing Saturday during the Labor Day weekend.&nbsp; I have been having some RF getting into my house wiring so I moved my antenna to a new location.&nbsp; During the test to see if I solved the RF intrusion problem I got a comeback while doing the audio test on AM 14.&nbsp; Someone came back to me from central California.&nbsp; I am in Boise Idaho so that was a pretty good contact.&nbsp; He was running a 3 element yagi and I was on my new built starduster type vertical I hung in a tree and used two counterpoise with.&nbsp; Test results were no RF intrusion and I got a DX contact. Success I&#039;d say.Feed point is 21 feet high.&nbsp; Hook at top allows hanging in tree.&nbsp; Counterpoise attached to 6 foot high fence at bottom of tree.&nbsp; Turns out antenna is pretty wide banded.&nbsp; I could use it with my 10 meter HF section on Yeasu 450D if I wanted to.[ATTACH=full]30842[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alan Blackmon, post: 683447, member: 49644"] I was doing some antenna testing Saturday during the Labor Day weekend. I have been having some RF getting into my house wiring so I moved my antenna to a new location. During the test to see if I solved the RF intrusion problem I got a comeback while doing the audio test on AM 14. Someone came back to me from central California. I am in Boise Idaho so that was a pretty good contact. He was running a 3 element yagi and I was on my new built starduster type vertical I hung in a tree and used two counterpoise with. Test results were no RF intrusion and I got a DX contact. Success I'd say. Feed point is 21 feet high. Hook at top allows hanging in tree. Counterpoise attached to 6 foot high fence at bottom of tree. Turns out antenna is pretty wide banded. I could use it with my 10 meter HF section on Yeasu 450D if I wanted to. [ATTACH=full]30842[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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