Note:
During major contests I operate from a different location from my 40m contest station which is 60km from my home (jo11of north of Bruges). Read more information by clicking the link or the navigation on the left....

I am living in Lauwe, Belgium, a small village between Kortrijk and the French border, qth locator is jo10os.
We have 1800m2 own property in a rather rural area outside of the village. I have very clear directions with good take-off to the North West over North to South East with slightly sloping down terrain. To the south I am only 10m below the top of the small hill, which is 35m above the flat sourrounding.
Our neighbor is a local farmer with some 25ha of farm land just behind our own property. Of coarse I already asked him for using the farm land during winter time for long beverage wires...
It just costs me some nice bottles of Belgian beer ... but I love the possibilities here with plenty of room in the winter in a reasonable good location.

3 years ago I build a 23m high vertical used in the winter time for 160m/80m DX work. It worked really well ! Some rare countries could be worked with this antenna, using 3km of wire as a radial system. For the moment I am only using 100wtts power, using a SDR-1000 software defined radio by Flexradio Systems.

Last winter the vertical broke down in a tremendous storm and I had to throw away a lot of aluminium. Ramaining surplus of that 23m vertical results in a 14m shorted tower, which I am using now to build some antenna's for mainly 40m and 80m. I am still in the planning and building phase, but a simple low inverted V for 40m is producing nice signals for local communication.
This dipole is planned to be my reference antenna, to compare to a later multi-element vertical phased array for 40m. Having very good results with such vertical arrays in my contenst location, I want to try a 8ele circle array (as a broadside/endfire config) asap. Let's see, what I can do...