The 50ft Zero Five guyless vertical has weathered several winter storm seasons without breaking a sweat. It's a noisy receive antenna, however, which is why I just purchased a receive-only antenna (more info below).

Past antennas, from right to left:

Rotary extended double zepp (EDZ) for 10-40 meters.

Homebrew contruction, 44ft tip to tip. Fed by 450-ohm ladder line and balanced L antenna tuner.

This design by L.B. Cebik provides nice bidirectional gain with low take-off angles. It performs exceptionally well on 20m!

Update: With L.B. Cebik's blessing I extended the 44ft antenna to 50ft by using 1/8" solid rods extending from the 22ft fiberglass poles' tips which I soldered to the wire elements and secured just beyond the poles' tips with copper split bolt connectors. This simplified tuning on 40m at the expense of a more lobed radiation pattern on 10 and 12 meters.

Elk Antennas 2m/440 5-element log periodic beam seen above the EDZ.

WARNING to those whose antenna tuners don't provide a DC ground to both ladder line leads: Perhaps due to the fiberglass poles, this antenna collects large amounts of static electricity which gets carried down the ladder line to my shack. RF chokes to ground on each side of the ladder line drain the static.

Update: This antenna was installed in March 2003 and hasn't endured as well as I had hoped. The fibreglass poles are sagging noticably and one of the joints slipped causing the stinger to slip out of the tip and sag down. The fiberglass is fading pretty badly from the sun. The short mast I used on top of the rotor eventaully slipped in the rotor clamp and is now pretty much freewheeling making the antenna useless. It's a 3-man job to get it down from its guyed 21ft 2" water pipe so it remains un-fixed and unused until I devise a one-man raise/lower support for my "tower".

Detail of the EDZ hub assembly.

4x12x3/8 inch 6061 aluminum stock from Metal Supermarkets. 22ft telescopic fiberglass poles from The Mast Company. Radio Support Blocks from DX Engineering.

The 22ft wire elements were quickly relocated to run inside the poles when the wires started slapping in the wind during ground-level testing. Elastic shock cords tied to the ends of the wires and extending through the pole tip fittings keep the wires fully extended and rattle-free.

Electric fence insulator acts as strain relief for dangling ladder line.

Elk Antennas 2m/440 log periodic beam, now removed and used (occasionally) to work the ham satellites.

Mounted on 1" PVC mast to avoid interaction with elements. Coax is deliberately routed in a perpendicular path from the element plane per manufacturer's recommendation.

Update: This $39 TV rotator did not have nearly enough capacity for this antenna! Not only couldn't it turn the antenna into any wind above 20mph, but the unit completely failed after only three months in service. I've procured a rebuilt CDE CD-44 rotator that will be replacing it.

160m ladder-fed doublet.

Two 10ft Radio Shack TV masts clamped to a handy fence post support the center of the doublet.

Old fashioned ladder line feeds the antenna.

This is a high-gain 2m/440 vertical.  it delivers 6db gain on 2m and 8.2db on 440.

Fed by RG-9913, the ground plane is close to the 1000ft elevation mark.

Ladder line leading to the doublet is visible in the foreground.

OOS March 2003 to install EDZ and 2m/440 beam.

That's one steep roof for climbing!  Note the red and black rope I have in place to make the job safer. Still, it's like repelling on my way down!

How to keep the feed line tidy?  Electric fence insulators!

The XYL still hates it..