With all the various deed restrictions and covenants out there, many of you have a few problems putting up a tower and a triband beam. Back in my Novice days, my first antenna was a 40-meter folded dipole made of out recycled twinlead from a neighbor's old TV antenna, stapled to the rafters inside my parents' attic. I even had some teenage notion that a 40-meter folded dipole would also work on 80 meters, but many hours of pounding out CQ without an answer (the only crystal I owned was 3720 kHz) convinced me I was wrong about folded dipoles. A few years later I took an old conical TV antenna, added 6 inches to the elements, put it up in the attic, and made my first 6-meter AM contacts.
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