You have to figure out which bands are most important to you, and how you're
going to rotate the beam remotely.  I would opt for a beam, even a small
one.  I think that on 20through 10 they work better than a vertical in
almost all cases.  The lower bands are another matter, and I'm not sure
there is an advantage to having a rotatable dipole for 40 if it's only going
to be up 30 feet or so.

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 10:08 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Ground mounted verticalVS small tri band beam
> 
> Hi All:=20
> 
> I'm looking at adding another antenna later on this Summer or Early Fall =
> but I'm kind of in a dilemma.=20
> The antennas in question are the DX Engineering Thunder Bolt 160/10M, 43 =
> foot multi band vertical, which I'd ground mount with 32 radials or the =
> Hy-gain Explorer 14,with the 40M add on. Don't have the tower capacity =
> for a bigger beam than that.=20
> I'm thinking that the Thunder Bolt would out perform the Hy-gain on 30 =
> and 40M, as these add ons are just rotatable dipoles and of course, =
> 80/160 but how do these big verticals stack up against the 14 foot boom =
> small 3 element tri banders on 20/10M?=20
> TNX & 73:=20
> 
> Michael De VO1RYN hopefully soon to be VO1EI! LOL=20