Mount a 2m vertical off a tree

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Thanks for that... I'm hoping to have a few radio club mates come out to give me a hand..... I'm not good at climbing trees.  

I was hoping someone might have some better ideas of securing the base pole on the tree.

Brendan,
Another option would be to make up a collinear antenna out of coax, put it in a length of poly pipe or similar or just heat shrink the joins and hang it from the tree, looking at the tree you should be able to keep the antenna away from the trunk, just might not be totally vertical you could even run a line out from the tree top, out as far as possible and hang the collinear antenna along that line.

73 from Michael
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