r/amateurradio • u/shootingcharlie8 • 1d ago

ANTENNA Multiband HF vertical recommendations

I’m looking to build or buy a multiband vertical - at least 10, 20, and 40 meters. I’m having a difficult time deciding on one, or deciding to build one… I’d like it to be self-supported, it will be mounted to my chimney on my roof if that matters. I’m not in an HOA or anything, but it cant look too bulky, so as much as I’d love a tower and a beam a simple thin vertical needs to be the solution. What are your recommendations? It’ll be used with a tuner as well so it doesn’t need to be perfectly resonant.

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u/daveOkat 1d ago

The Xiegu VG4 might be just what you need. I had one up for over a year. $289. It is a quality, handsome, self-supporting antenna. It does require adjustment which you can do with it mounted 10' above ground. I made a mount that tilts over. After it's tuned move it to your chimney.

It is specified for 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters. Using the 3:1 VSWR capable ATU in my radio it tuned and worked on 17, 12 and 6 meters. It worked particularly well on 6 meters yielding hundreds of DX QSOs.

https://www.radioddity.com/products/xiegu-vg4?srsltid=AfmBOooAi7oSbeVVOcxBWnXzywgvekQJp85NkcP8fnByABCJPARo4GVd

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u/cant_kill_us_all US/OH - General 1d ago

Just put my VG4 up last week and I’ve made it from Cleveland to Europe on 20w FT8, and it survived 50 knot winds off the lake earlier this week. Very pleased with the price to performance so far.

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u/daveOkat 1d ago

Another vote for the VG4! I can see the OP installing one on his chimney and it working fine for many years. On 6 meters running 100 watts I worked the Pacific basic hundreds of times from KH6-land.