Just a note:

With a link-coupled tuner you can use either a balanced line (ladder line,
tv twin-lead) fed antenna or a coax fed antenna. It handles either equally
well.

Used Johnson Matchboxes are still fairly common on ebay in the $100 price
range. I use mine for all bands 80-10. If you want to roll your own link
coupled tuner see:
http://www.amfone.net/ECSound/K1JJ13.htm