The issue you are having with the lamps, if they are like Tallman's ones, get some different ones. I had 2 dipoles up, one directly above the house at 35-40ft and one in the backyard at the opposite end of the yard from where the Sirio vector I took a pic is. It was up at the same height or near the same height as the other. One pointed N/S and the other E/W. Both in the horz. position. I used snap on ferrites and was able to get the impedance down on both antennas. Ran both through the LPF using a diawa switch.
Never had any RFI issues with anything in my house or the neighbors either. Using the Icom 746 with up to 100w being used. Not much. But I didn't even use that much power 99.9% of the time. More like 20w.
After installing the Sirio vector 4K i got rid of both dipoles as the the vector does better all around. It heard everything the dipoles heard. Just can't cut noise out as easy due to it being an omnidirectional antenna. But it works well for me on 11m SSB. I have no issues making contacts these days with 100w or less.
At any rate, get your coax as straight down the antenna to the ground as possible. At least the first 9ft of it anyway. I found keeping them about just above head level and bringing them into radio room worked well. And I also used LMR240 coax and #6awg wire to make mine LOL! They weren't too heavy but man they were heavy duty! Anyways. Might be a good time to look into a good vertical antenna as the DX is dead. You will get some occasionally but it's very sporadic these days! Depending on how bad the winds are where your qth is, I would recommend the Sirio vector 4K or even the 827.
Any other good antenna is going to cost triple the amount!!
Only other antennas are the Maco v5/8 or V5000. Anyways just some food for thought and hope you get it all working like you want. Only other antennas I would say to look at is a 3 element beam. Get it up as high as you can. They will tell well locally if you get them up in the air. At any rate, have a good one and maybe I'll catch you on air. Been monitoring 38lsb. Nothing! Just static. Have a good day man.
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