Dave,

 From what you said about the radials being hot, I assume you mounted this
antenna on your roof.  How long are the radials?  You mentioned having good
SWR on all bands.  Does that mean that the antenna performs equally well on
all bands?  How do they get half wave on all bands without the use of traps?

Steve

On Tuesday 6/3/03 01:50 David W Wood wrote:
>Hello all
>
>I recently installed a Kushcraft R8, which stands at about 8.5M high.
>It isn't the cheapest, but works as a half wave on all bands from 40M to
>6M.
>
>It has integral radials which have hot ends in view of it being a half
>wave, so these should be out of reach.
>
>It is well built and a a bit heavy to install however, but my sighted
>friend and I put it together and had our first contact within 5 hours.
>
>The SWR is very good over its whole range, so we have negated the use of
>an ATU.
>
>73 de G3YXX