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    What's the consensus on mounting a Butternut HF-V elevated, with several tuned radials per band?
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    Quote Originally Posted by KJ3N View Post
    Which (given the height of an HF-6V/9V) should give you about 10Khz of bandwidth on 160m..... if you're lucky. :-P
    Yep. The manual says about 10KC's on 160 with a decent counterpoise. After tinkering with it, I have over 80 KC's 2.0 :1 or below on 75 meters. Pretty cool for antenna only $25' tall.

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    I finally got the 12 & 17 meter add on kit installed, and retuned the rest of the antenna. The SWR is very high on 10 meters now, I'm going to work on that. The other bands are fine. I was surprised at the amount of activity on 17. First station I worked was a VP5, 5-9 both ways.

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    Excellent result ;)
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