Survey of less-expensive multiband HF Vertical Antennas

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This is post 2501 in a continuing series of simple ham radio antennas.

There are many ways to acquire a multiband HF vertical antenna.  Many radio amateurs (myself included) choose to learn from our mistakes by building our own vertical antennas.

If you can't create your own HF vertical antenna, there are many commercial models available from cheap to expensive.

In this video, David Casler (KE0OG) shows us some of the less-expensive commercial antennas that can produce excellent results at a modest cost. Perhaps some of these antennas will fit your station requirements.

Here are some general comments from David:

Oggie Mike, KB7HFS, asks for a recommendation for a new vertical antenna. He already has a radial field and a mount; his prior antenna was destroyed in a windstorm. He considers the Butternut HF-9V too expensive. We look on DXEngineering.com for less expensive antennas and also at the DX Commander. Subscribe: https://youtube.com/user/davecasler. Ask Dave Playlist: https://goo.gl/inaQeB. Tip Jar: http://ke0og.net/tip-jar To learn more about me, visit: http://www.dcasler.com/about/ Tip jar (on my website): http://www.dcasler.com/tip-jar/ (provides a method to use your credit card via PayPal, Also describes Patreon) To pose an Ask Dave question: http://www.dcasler.com/ask-dave/ or http://www.ke0og.net/ask-dave/ To order the most recent and up-to-date Amateur Extra videos on a thumb drive: http://dcasler.com/aevids-on-stick/ Theme music is "Sour Tennessee Red," by John Deley and the 41 Players, courtesy YouTube Music Library. I use drawings from OpenClipArt.org, including the "walking man" Technician training videos, see http://www.ke0og.net/training/ General training videos, see http://www.ke0og.net/general/ Amateur Extra training videos, see http://www.ke0og.net/extra/ List of the Ask Dave videos, see http://dcasler.com/ask-dave/#askdavelist Thanks to my sweet wife, Loretta, KBØVWW, for both audio and video assistance! (Her website is www.aldea-art.com.) My primary website: http://www.dcasler.com The ham radio part of my website (direct link): http://www.ke0og.net My publishing website: http://www.mtsneffelspress.com, where you can find my fantasy and science fiction books, as well as some local history books I publish for the Ridgway Railroad Museum and the Ouray County Historical Society My Amazon author page, which lists my print and Kindle books: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B00471I0Q4. I'm often asked what equipment I use to create the videos. The devices include the Panasonic DMC-G7 camera, Panasonic HDC-TM90 video camera, GoPro Hero2 HD camera, Tascam DR-05 audio recorder, Audio-Technica ATR-3350 lapel microphone, Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W560 digital camera, the Kodak Zi-8 video camera, my iPhone 5S. Software used: CyberLink PowerDirector 17 on an HP Gaming Pavilion, also using Smoothdraw 4.0.5.0, FastStone Image Viewer 5.3, FastStone Capture 8.0, Audacity 2.1.1, LibreOffice 5.0.4.2, and Ink2Go 1.7.2. You can see how my studio is set up by viewing https://youtu.be/wFSQ8vtNA5A. Twitter: @dcasler

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