On Sun, 06 Nov 2005 10:02:10 GMT, jimg wrote:

hi. i'm about to be a new ham. i hv only 1 chance for an antenna for
80m (or 40, even 20). there's a 120' oak tree in the yard with 70'
clear on either side. so i thought a ladder-line center-fed inverted
vee dipole (63' per leg, 14ga teflon insulated stranded) would be my
best bet...so at 100W, even 600W ...am i going to set the tree on
fire? any ideas on how to keep bad things from happening? thank you
very much?

jimg
jimg
Oregon
USA

I have an 80 meter dipole running through three trees; I use a
standard tree trimmer (reach about 20'-25') to keep the wires pretty
much in the clear.

bob
k5qwg