Simple Ham Radio Antennas--HyEndFed 5 Band HF Antenna Installation. Post #764.
If you're having trouble viewing this video, please insert this title link into your browser search box: https://youtu.be/kGyAveQsf60. Here's another antenna idea for those of us living on small city lots. In this video, Tracy ("Outdoors On The Air") uses a HyEndFed 5 Band HF Antenna to get some interesting contacts on a cold day. His 75-foot/22.86 meter end-fed antenna seems to do well, even without a counterpoise wire or extensive radial ground system. I've found that end-fed wires usually need a counterpoise or radial system to function at peak efficiency and to keep unwanted rf out of the shack. I usually keep it simple: I attach a counterpoise wire for the lowest frequency in use to the ground lug of my Drake MN-4 antenna transmatch. That seems to work fairly well and keeps rf outside where it belongs. None the less, Tracy's video is well-done and offers plenty of suggestions for those radio amateurs living in compromised situations. For the l...