Gery,
As Steve mentioned the radials are really important to a 
vertical.  If you haven't concentrated on them, give it a try and see 
if it won't help.  And a good ground is important for other reasons as well.
If you could easily raise that dipole it would perhaps work very well 
for you as well.
good luck.
Pat, K9JAUAt 10:03 AM 1/11/2010, you wrote:
>Steve, I did stick around, I heard the call for a transmition and tried but=
>  didn't get through.  I have an LDG antenna tuner and got an swr of about 1=
>.5.  I had 100 watts out and reflective power of about 5 watts.  It seemed =
>I had better reception when I had the vertical mounted on a pipe.  I wonder=
>  if I were to do this again and get the counter poise for the 6v if that wo=
>uld help.  I had the antenna mounted on the pole when I wasn't licensed.  I=
>  just listened.  I got the tw1 and my liecnse and the tuner and the swr was=
>  about 8 to 1.  I mounted the antenna in the ground and gave up reception f=
>or transmition.
>
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