jawod wrote in :

What would you recommend for a wire antenna if there was enough room for
an 80 dipole? Assume use for 80M , 40M and 20M,

Go for height first, then for length. Just build the biggest, highest damn
dipole you can and feed it in the center with open wire line, 450 ohm line
or 300 ohm TV lead, whatever you can get. Tune it at the rig with a
balanced tuner. If need be fiddle with the feedline length until you can
get it to work on all the bands you wish to use it on.

I've never had this approach fail me. Of course if you want to work a lot
of DX on 80M, this is probably NOT the way to go (unless you can get it up
100 feet or more--at 300 feet it will sing no matter what you do, but you
need real trees for that kind of height).

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Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667