I had a Fan Dipole with wires cut for 75M, 40M and 20M. I used plastic coat hangers for seperators. It worked like gangbusters for all 3 bands with-out a tuner and everywhere else with the tuner........ I even made a few contacts on 160M and 6M. I could never get it to work on 60M.... I don't know why.
Another one I built I used PVC Pipe cut to length for my separators....... for some reason, that antenna sucked.....
Did you take out the sprinkler heads?
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