That sucks....
No trees here to use for the inverted L, you probably saw the aluminium mast i build behind the house, in the antenna section.
That one will be "grow" a little larger and much stronger, new aramide guy wire etc.
Build originally for 160, the added MFJ 998 tuner has no sweat to tune it flat on the other bands, but on 20 it is or the OCF or the L, depending on conditions etc., higher as 20 it is or the FD-4 OCF from Fritzel, or the Imax 2000 with 15 feet long wire radials on the roof as vertical.
I can chose for all bands between the horizontal FD-4 ( 160-10) or a vertical, L or Imax.
Lets try a frequency there and a time, i can make 800 watts there at ease.
You make the suggestion freq/time, i'll adapt ;)


If you can doctor your Mosley beam back to life, you will have an good edge over my pithy antenna set up ;)
I have only 2 chimney's to use here in the block of 6 houses here, one has the 6/2/70 beams and Diamond X510N, the other the Imax and diamond discone antenna used as antenna for the FT-100 radio.



Quote Originally Posted by W3WN View Post
I like my Inverted L (although these days it's vertical leg is more like half a V) especially on 160. It needs more radials. Sad to say, I don't think I'm going to have it for more than another year or two. The tree it's hanging from belongs to a neighbor (which I'm using with permission), but that tree is not in good shape. Last year it got 2 visits from a tree service and looks today to be close to dead, and if that's the case, it will be gone soon.

Even if it's not removed, well, my neighbors are very nice people, but they're both elderly (in their 80's) and not in the best of health. While we don't know when, um, the inevitable will happen, it will happen. Or their kids may place them in a care facility. So the day may come when other circumstances, shall we say, remove my permission to use the tree or what's left of it.

I'm looking into additional options. I have an old Mosley beam in storage, but it needs a lot of TLC before it ever goes in the air again. And that's presuming that I can get a small tower in the back yard at some point; not a zoning issue, but a combination of a wife issue and a wallet issue. I'm also looking at some of the Spiderbeam antennas and similar configuartions (Hex Beams too), and those ought to be light enough to go on my three foot tripod and be placed up on the roof. Shekels again come into play there. But I'll figure something out.

I'm open for skeds, especially on the weekends. How are you fixed for 17 meters?