Hustler 4BTV is up

Jack, W0UCE, helped me install a hustler 4BTV February 15th. After a fine day with my wife on February 14th, Jack and I devoted a good chunk of Sunday to the 4BTV. Jack was kind enough to assemble the antenna during the week. We hauled it over to my QTH Sunday morning. We placed 24 15 foot radials on the ground for the ground plane. Tuning the antenna was quite a challenge. After several hours we called it a day with just 10 and 20 meters tuned. Jack treated me to a fine steak and 807s afterward.

Monday evening I played with it some more in the few precious moments of sunlight after work and manged to get 15 meters to an acceptable SWR...40 meters is still up in the air...

3:1 is the best I can get it in the CW band, but I'll go with it for now. This antenna will serve mainly as a second radio antenna during this weekend's ARRL CW contest.