Hi
I obviously haven't been keeping up with butternut.  At one time they sold a 
"tuned radial kit" which was essentially four wires that I believe took care 
of 40 through 10.  They were flexible and would have to be laid on a roof or 
something.  I gather the counterpoise is a totally different arrangement. 
Does it deal with anything below 40 meters?
I enjoyed my cushcraft r8 but after going through two of them because of 
wind problems I will have to look for something sturdier.
I have been lead to believe that the butternut is much easier to set up if 
you have an analyzer.  I thought that all bands could be adjusted from the 
base but apparently changing one band effects the resonant point for others. 
E-hams had some rather interesting reviews.
If I have missed the boat I'd be curious.  A self supporting (really self 
supporting) vertical with a counterpoise might be on my wish list.

speaking of wish list, has anyone found any small hf beams that they were 
particularly happy with?  I used the good old ta33 jr a number of years ago 
and was happy but wonder if there is anything similar or smaller out there.
I have tried the butternut hf6B and it was a bear to tune on 20 and there 
wasn't much front to back.
Richard