Buddistick for SOTA activations? Please share your experience

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It’s awfully heavy with the tripod… here’s how I do 20/17/15 with a Buddistick clone that weighs 2/3rd of nothing…

Simple 3 band vertical (20m/17m/15m)

The reason for making this antenna was the desire for a vertical (hence DX-ish) antenna that would cover at least 20m that would fit on my 5m fishing pole. A 1/4wave GP wont fit onto a 5m pole as the radials need to slope down at 45degs from the feed, with a 5m radiating section, the 5m pole is too short. Reading assorted reports over the years the common feature was that a few elevated radials seem to have lower loss than laying a few on the ground. If you can bury a huge great mass of wire the…