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They're aluminum from home depot- in their bulk metals section near the hardware. I think about 1" wide, or slightly less. You have to go slow when bending them because the aluminum will want to crack. I suppose you could heat it up with a torch. I just cut them to length, bent them in the...

I also prefer a long antenna, the longer the better. But, I also like to keep the antenna, not lose it to low branches and such. So I keep a few in the truck- long ones for when I need more reach out in the sticks, and the compact one for around town and in the dense forest. This forum thread...

1.5 is <2:1, no? I have experienced that the antenna works, and I get good signal reports. 110 watts is helping I'm guessing. ;) It's also the only dual band 'transit' style antenna of which I'm aware. I think 45° would hit the window.

The radials were inspired by the Compactenna, like this one which is the antenna that usually sits on top of the riser. They suggest radials at 70° which is pretty steep. For the wire antenna I was using an inverted pan I picked up at walmart and painted. More of a flat ground plane.

AntennaClimber or Technoweenie are your SMEs, maybe a few others. Here's mine. Would like to do a 10 meter radjo but haven't sourced the proper mil antenna yet. Currently have two Orions, one VHF and the other UHF, and a dual-band antenna.