Hope the New Year is going well for all!! Peter Hart wrote a review of several antennas and also did a comparison of those to the Butternut HF6V. His article ran in Radio Communication March of 1991. Peter installed his HF6V along with 16 radials of various lengths. Like all of us, he compared antennas at hand to the butternut. A 3-element tri-bander at 40ft, a 40mtr sloper and a 190ft inverted L. The HF6 was down consistently 1-2 S units from the yagi on 10 and 15mtrs, while 1 S unit on 20mtrs. He didn't see any real difference on 40 compared to the sloper, kinda a toss up. 80 mtrs at "resonance" the butternut was less than 1 S unit difference to the inverted L. Vetical to vertical comparison. The HF6V was compared to the Gap DX-VI challenger. Both antennas were mounted in the clear with about 300ft seperation between them. At this location, the HF6V used 12 radials and the Gap used its 3 of 25ft. On 80mtrs the Gap was down 1.5 S units to the HF6, this reduced to .5 S units at 50Khz away from the HF6 resonance. On 7 and 14 Mhz no perceptible difference. On 15 mtrs the Gap was down 1 to 2 S units and about .5 on 28 Mhz compared to the HF6V. The HF6V was compared to the Gap DX-IV Voyager. Similar setup between the two antennas. On 80 mtrs the Gap was about .5 S units better than the HF6 at resonance while up to 2 S units better away from HF6 resonance point. On 7 Mhz no difference and on 14 Mhz the Gap was down by 1 to 2 S units. The HF6V was compared to the Cushcraft R-7. Again similar setup but the R-7 was mounted about 5ft above ground. On 28 and 21 Mhz no real differences were seen, like wise on 14 and 7 Mhz. On 10 Mhz the Butternut was just a tick better. So what does this all mean???? 1. Each antenna works well either by itself or compared to another. 2. The small Gap gives up a little on 80 by covering more freq. 3. Both Gaps have to be taken down to change 80 coverage by changing the capacitor in the top piece of tubing. 4. Both Gaps have to be guyed, especially the big one. 5. The Cushcraft is vary narrow on 40 and 20 mtrs. You get what you pay for, but for me I'll keep my HF6V and HF2V. Easy to work on as I'm getting to old to climb and its varly easy to adjust the freq coverage. A little 12-12-12 fertilizer and water covered my radials over nicely with grass so there out of sight. The new R-7000 vs the Dx-77 was kinda a wash. No real complaints were registered toward the Cushcraft verticals while the Hy-gain had both mechanical and detuning problems. All who owned either the R-7 or the R-7000 were very pleased with them. For me it was worth the small purchase price for the R-7000 manual, as I could use a new printer Hi. For me, I think the R-7000 with 80 mtrs is to much for my small yard, to much guying is required and you need couterpoise plus top hat wires to boot!!! One question came up about feedback from the R-7000. Don't know, but I did have a R-5 mounted above the roof about 5ft. I brought the feed line down to ground level before bringing into the house. Worked ok, but really not as well as my HF6v further out in the yard. And the HF6v didn't rip my daughters phone up like the R-5. But that is not true rf "byte you on the mouth" feed back either Hi. So for my new year I'll add a few more ground mats and maybe squeeze in another vertical against the fence line and try my luck at phased verticals for 40 mtrs. And when the spots come back maybe a loop or two for 20 and up. Tnx for waiting for my responce Mike WD9AJY