Short Wave Sportfishing wrote in
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I swear to you (and this is my memory here, so it's suspect)
it looked exactly like a very early version of the Butternut HF-6
vertical. :)


On my wall over the computer is my RTTY roundup award, a SC record that
still stands, 6th place on the planet in 1994. Station was a Yaesu FT-990,
Drake L-4B linear and Butternut HF-9VX crazy looking vertical mounted in
the center of my metal mobile home ground plane. VE8RCS, the northern most
permanent amateur radio station on the planet, sent me a QSL saying that
Butternut was the loudest 20M RTTY station he could hear over the din of
the Japanese stations. Metal ground planes make a Butternut just hum!

WA4USN, the club station aboard the Aircraft Carrier Yorktown (CV-10) in
Charleston Harbor, uses a Butternut HF-6V bolted to the handrail of the
"World's Largest Ground Plane". Man, that thing radiates like mad!...(c;

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