  We study, within an effective approach, the phenomenology of a charged W'
vector which transforms as an isosinglet under the Standard Model gauge group.
We discuss bounds from present data, finding that these are quite weak for
suitable choices of the right-handed quark mixing matrix. Then we study the
resonant production at the early LHC of such a weakly constrained W'. We start
discussing the reach in the dijet final state, which is one of the channels
where the first W' signal would most likely appear, and then we analyse
prospects for the more challenging discovery of W' decays into W{\gamma} and
WZ. We show in particular that the former can be used to gain insight on the
possibly composite nature of the resonance.
