Howard,

I've got the Cobra Ultralite Senior.  I'm running it with the ends about 20 
feet off the ground, supported between two trees at opposite ends of my yard 
with no center support.  I put it up in 2004, and it has survived the last 
four years here in New England.  It's a quiet antenna; in fact, when the 
band was in bad shape, I sometimes wondered if it had come down, but it 
hasn't yet.  In my setup, it performs well on 80 and 40, but not so well 
above 40.  I suspect it would work better if I raised the center to 40 feet, 
but haven't figured out a good way to support it.  You need a tuner no 
matter what band you use, and I'm using an Icom AT500 which works better 
than the internal tuner on my 480 because it uses tuned variable capacitors 
rather than the fixed capacitors common in most internal tuners today.

I get my best reports on 80, and usually find that when I hear a 100-watt 
station at S9 with no preamp and no attenuation, I get an S9 from that 
station when I run 100 watts.  I've talked to N1UMJ in the middle of the 
afternoon on 75 using that antenna, and if he remembers our QSO, he can tell 
you what kind of signal I had.

There are, no doubt, better antennas than the Cobra Ultralite Senior, but if 
you're looking for a low-cost (around $80), easy to install antenna, I don't 
think you'll go wrong.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 15:32
Subject: Re: G5RV VS Windom


> You have the space, go for it!!!  For some reason, a halfwave on 160 does
> not work well tuned on 75.  I wish I had the space to figure out why.  I
> wish somebody on here would try that cobra so I could learn about with out
> having to buy it myself.
>