"MD" wrote in message
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I haven't got the room for a good 80m antenna. My vertical covers 40 so no
trouble there. I am looking for ideas on a short 80m that will give half
decent results. I have about 66' available straight or can make some kind
of
inverted vee ???

Put up 66 ft of wire, or any length that is convenient. Wire length is
unimportant. Inverted vee is ok. Feed it with open wire line (Or 450 ohm
ladder line) an any point you like. It will work just the same as a full
sized dipole. Do not use any coax in the feedline, losses can be very high,
even with very short lengths. You do need a well designed tuner, with low
losses. Fairly high voltages will be present at the output of the tuner.

Regards.

Frank