Rich wrote:
Finally, can anyone suggest an off-the-shelf antenna based on their
experiences with it?

Not off the shelf, but a 40 ft dipole will work well on 40m
if you can get the RF into the dipole. A quick session with
EZNEC says if you create a G5RV-like dipole, 40 ft. long, fed
with 20 ft. of 450 ohm ladder-line, and install a 1000 pf cap
at the ladder-line/coax junction, it will be close to 50 ohms
on 7.2 MHz. Of course, it will have to be "cut and tried".

Other lengths of ladder-line should allow it to work well on
the higher HF bands without a tuner.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



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