Well, the tree isn't ideal, but a natural tower isn't too bad. Before Jack and I were hams we were CBers and it was a good place for cutting radio teeth if you do more than talk. We did a lot of experimenting, mostly with antennas, building a few too, and modifying ham transmitters made before 1960 with 11M. My last station was Heathkit twins, an Apache transmitter tweaked for 11M and a Mohawk receiver. There's nothing like an M derived pi section filter following a clipper for punch without audible distortion and splatter. To the point, we had an antenna in the tree behind his house at the shore, we had a lot of fun there and the signal covered Atlantic City to New York, we didn't "shoot skip" because there wasn't any propagation.

Telescoping mast, my base station house had only a 16ft roof peak so I had to go up, compounding the problem was only the legal 2Ft setback from the property line. We put 3 heavy wall brackets on the side holding a 50ft mast telescoped down to 40ft to give several walls thickness at the top bracket. The mast sat on a concrete block and the earthing stake 10ft into the ground connected to the mast with a conductor thick as your thumb scrounged from a transformer installation saved my life one night when the antenna got smacked. It stood up to a hurricane so I can say it was good material and installed well even though unguyed.

Going mobile Charles isn't a bad idea either, I knew two 10M Mobileers, one the owner of a 10M repeater and the other one of the 10M CBers who parked at the Point Pleasant Beach Inlet watching the boats go by. When I was still active I QSOed with a guy on 6 USB parked on a mountain in Pennsylvania 120 miles North By Northwest of me. Yeah, it's also the name of a Hitchcock thriller. He lived in a valley so VHF from home was impossible. I used to go hilltopping in the VXAmobile, one time I called on 145.250 and kept hearing a tiny signal answering, barely audible. I thought it strange, so I ran a test of a sequence of long and short transmissions, they came back as sent. AHAAA! One of those silly simplex repeaters only this LID put it on the calling frequency! GGGRRR!!!