OCF/EFHW Inverted-V Antenna Bracket

As a ham, one MUST have an antenna.  Non-hams often stereotype antennas as massive towers requiring acres and megabucks.  HOA hams, like me, can only wish and must compromise, lest the Association Police issue a citation.

My HOA is actually pretty chill, as long as your antenna isn't visible from the street and your neighbors don't turn you in (that's why I shovel my neighbor's snow and spray their weeds).  In any case, my ham "rig" runs 100 watts to a 66' long off-center-fed/end-fed halfwave antenna in an inverted-V configuration.

I bought the antenna as a kit from a very cool company called Palomar Engineers, and it's been performing quite nicely, allowing contacts over a wide frequency range.  

Here are a few pics of my mounting configuration.

Not visible is the main mast, which is simply a 10' section of PVC pipe, painted gray with the transformer mounted at the top.  The pole assembly is simply slid over an 8' steel fence post, which I anchored with cement.  The feed line wraps around the PVC pipe, and about 13' from the transformer is installed a large choke.  The feed line length between the transformer and choke form the counterpoise.

Even though this antenna is fairly short, I can operate on all bands between 6M and 80M, with some limitations at the extremes.  The (not so) secret is an antenna tuner.  I've got the LDG AT-200ProII desktop model, and I've had great success.

With any luck perhaps we'll QSO on the air!

73!