The attic isnt tall enough for my Diamond.
I'm going to try a Frequency Devices 20m Dipole to start. I can hide that one for the winter in my attic.
And it isnt as easy with kids (9 and 12) who like to play in the back yard. makes it a little more difficult to hang for fear of getting hit by balls and the like.
I may try an inverted V in the spring. I can possibly put the center on a pole attached to my raised deck, and one end to my tree, and the other to a neighbor's tree. (She wont care) On that note, would one side being a couple degrees off line matter? (eg one leg exactly on a 0* heading and the other leg on a 185* heading?) I'm not sure I can run it in a straight line due to the potential of one side touching the corner of the house. Its VERY close... To the point I'd probably string up some masonry twine as a mock up to try it.
Well, moving the dual band was a bargaining chip still is, lots of dual band antennas to choose from... I use the diamond x30 as the x50 would have been a little tight in my attic...
my kids are 7 and 10. 25' up is hardly in the way. Worse that’ll happen is a ball or something hits it and I have to fix it or rehang it (or if your feed line is out in the open and they try to climb it or something; regardless it can be repaired or rehung).
Mine has a 5-10 degree bend in the middle, doesn’t hurt anything.
What you were looking at would get you on the air, but when it’s -10 degrees out this winter and you want to change bands from 20m to 40m because 20m has closed for the day, you’ll like having something a little more multi-band w.o having to swap ham sticks.
Im still fairly new to HF... got my general last fall and my extra a month ago...
my mentor was pretty insistent on setting me up with a solid antenna, given HOA constraints, budget, lack of really big trees, etc, and I’m glad I followed his advice. Now he's pushing me into an 80m setup and I’m trying to figure what I could make work. LoL
-rvb