I'm still struggling on the optimum set up and ain't there yet. Best so far is a wire up a 32 foot fiberglass mast mounted to the ladder. I run the AH-4 at the base of the mast and hook all that up to my Icom 7000. The biggest problem is with RF back into the rv that has tripped the GFI a couple of times.
The best results I seen by anyone else was a fellow from Michigan with a fiberglass fiver. He had a SteppIR on the roof with two radials. It was the 20 meter version. I visited his shack and he was DXing all over the place. The noise level was as low as I've seen on beam antenna's. I'm not ambitious enough to rig a SteppIR on the roof.
My next trip out I'll try hooking up the air coil I use here at the base station and, if that doesn't cure my problem, I'll look for a better grounds for the tuner and the radio. I'm probably getting a ground loop. I'll take a four foot cu stake I have and play with it.
Keep us posted on your experience.
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