The other day Nick, W3NRL asked about the Hybrid and wire and today I set up a Hybrid base with the supplied wire, which if straightened out and with the spring and hybrid base is about 32 ft in length. Used a 31 ft Jackite kite pole(which had a wire antenna ,with a well-known manufacturers 4:1 balun, that had very SWR on 40 and 80m of  >9.9:1 on my analyser and rig). 4 buried radials 32 ft long, and grounded to 8 ft ground rod at base.The pole to which the kite-pole is attached for stability is also non-conductive, but there is a a strut at 6 foot which is insulated to give support. As can be seen in the pictures it is close to the dividing wall of my house, and not in the best of locations, but is hidden in the palm trees - antenna restrictions !!  The main purpose of my set up is to have a better antenna on 40 and 80 meters.
Results so far:
1. SWR is  3.4:1 across the 80 meter band
                                    4.2 to 4.5:1 across the 40 meter band
                              and less than 2.5:1 for 30 to 6 meters
2. Today 5/10/12 at my QTH bands were horrendous. Was able to make contacts with vertical on 17 meters with Austria and Bosnia with 600 watts and received a 58 and 59 (not  
    credible as competition station. The vertical hears 2 s-units better on 40 meters - this is to be expected as it is set-up for this band. 80 meters was not open here at the time. The vertical hears a bit better than the Hybrid-V1-whip on 20 from the little that I could hear, but is 1-2 s-units down on 17 meters. These anecdotal evaluations were done with an external tuner in operation. The Hybrid-V1 base-whip is certainly a 17 meter weapon at my QTH - during my limited testing I got a 59+30 report from MI6XRC(M), I was using my amplifier and for the moment had that "magic channel with the magic base" !

3.Pictures of setup below.

All advice and comments appreciated.