Well, I am quite surprised at the results I got when I started comparing the 23 foot ground mounted vertical to the mobile whips on the crossboom!
The mobile whips outperformed the vertical hands down! Even on 40m. I can only guess that this is because the vertical is between the houses and not getting the same view as the mobile whips.
The vertical has about 20 radials in the ground and 3 ground spikes and is fed with 30' of LMR-400.
The whips only have the structure on the chimney and the two sets are fed with RG-58!
I am considering moving the whips off of the boom and locating them off to the one side of the chimney next to the large maple tree. I found I can hear AO-7 mode A on the vertical and mobile whip, but a rotatable dipole on the boom should make a big difference.
I'm going to have to work fast if I want to get this done before winter.
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