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Hustler BTV-5 10/15/20/40/80

Ground Mounted: This antenna was a bit of a bitch to set up setting it to the instructions in the manual I got high Vswr, talking to the members of our radio club G3SKY took 10 days to set up properly before using an antenna analyser which I borrowed and then Started again to tune  the antenna and moving the traps to get low Vswr, using radials for the 10/15/20.40 meter sections got very good Vswr reading between 1,.2 to 1.6 though these bands. Emails to and from DXengineering about the 80 meter section, lots of help these people know what they are talking about and they send you PDF files to help set the antenna up, the idiot guide (instruction manual) is quite straight forward and gives you step by step assembly instructions to help with the installation of the antenna ground mounted or  elevated  but the 80 meter section is very narrow on this antenna could not get radials down on the 80 meter section they needed 130ft,65ft each side of the antenna just not enough garden or space around the antenna, or to use the limited space configuration, so using it with a couple of earth rods and 64ft length of wire seems to have done the job Vswr down to 1.3 on the 3,700mhz 25Khz-50khz of bandwidth very narrow, Vswr of 2 either side 3.600/3.800 so I use a autotuner to tune this band works well on all bands with good radio reports. now just need to save a few more penny's to be able to get the tilt base hi hi.