Aerial-51 was created for the following reasons:

• A belief that with antennas, "HEIGHT IS MIGHT"

• Keeping an antenna light enables erecting it much higher

• Modern lightweight materials are available for building  antennas:
  • Very tall, lightweight telescoping fiberglass poles
  • Thin, CopperWeld wire (lightweight but very strong)
  • Strong lightweight rope (Kevlar, Dyneema, PVDF, etc.)
  • Lightweight insulators (Polyethelin, Plexiglas, FR4, etc.)

but . . . 

• Currently most companies designing and building wire antennas are still building them just like they built them in the 1950's:

HEAVY AS A TANK!

• Unfortunately most text books are still teaching the same consturction technique as used in the 1950's.

• Amateur radio operators, unfamiliar with the construction techniques of these new materials, continue to home brew antennas as if they were preparing for World War II.

• Then in portable operations, they often erect these heavy monsters just 15 to 20 feet high and wonder why their signal is so poor.  (duh)

Aerial-51 represents a

modern, lightweight approach 

to antenna construction.

I live on a mountain side in  central Germany in the region of Main-Spessart.

I have an antenna test field located behind my house, farther up the mountain, well hidden by trees.

When visitors ask me where my antennas are, I point up the mountain and say "Outdair Sumwear".   In the meantime that's the name I have given my antenna test field.  :-)

All Aerial-51 antennas come from Outdair Sumwear.