Read up on the topic of linear loading. You can bend that wire back on
itself and increase the total length of wire. There are discussions of this
in ON4UNs Low Band Dxing book. One commercial example is the Cobra
Ultralite at http://www.k1jek.com/.

I use a top center fed L. One side is horizontal and the other side is
vertical. Fed at the top center with ladder line. Cebik has several
articles on his site about center fed Ls. No ground plane, horizontal and
vertical polarization, fewer nulls in the pattern. Very nice

I think the center feds make a lot more sense for multiband operation.

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Radio K4ia
Craig "Buck"
Fredericksburg, VA USA
FISTS 6702 cc 788 Diamond 64
"Richard" wrote in message
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Just wondering: If you had a 33 foot horizontal wire, fed at one end with
a
ladder line, which was connected to an atu, it would work on 20 metres,
but
would it work on 40, 80 and 160metres? TIA.