5 Banding the 20m 1/4 wave Junk Pile Vertical
One nice spring day in 2019, my grandson and I went outside for a walk around the property. I happened to notice a piece of aluminum tubing I had lying beside a shed. On further investigation I realized it was half of a 20m beam element that another ham had left behind after a field day. It had been a half wave dipole for the event and he told me to just keep it. I asked my grandson, 6yr old at the time if I remember correctly, if he would like to help me build an antenna. His reply was a curious, "What's an antenna papa?". So, we had the unforgettable experience of building a ground mounted 1/4 wave 20m vertical together. A few days ago I got the idea to add more bands to this antenna. I did some digging around and found some wire, purchased a few pvc fittings and hose clamps, and started putting additional 1/4 wave elements for 17m, 15m, 12m, and 10m. I know, some of those bands are going to be very inefficient ground mounted, but what the heck, it's amatuer