Bill wrote:
Years ago I cleared a 200 foot path in among some hard woods....Needed to
practice my high irons....

But Now...lets put up a monster antenna.. For high bands 17 - 20 meters.

In this path I've got two 120 foot towers in line with Europe. The towers
are 500 feet apart......Its pretty well open on the sides

I can easily run a cable between them and then
hang what...???

Give me your dream antenna...or your best shot!!!

Thanks,

Bill
http://www.kc4pe.com/amateurshack.htm

Hi Bill, I would go with a wire Log Periodic. There was a series of
articles in Ham Radio Mag. back in the 70's and 80's describing logs
that were made of wire hung from towers. Logs have some gain, and are
frequency independent to an extent. You could construct a Log that
would cover 20-15 meters, and have some (3db?) gain. May 1974 issue of
Ham Radio had such an antenna.
Other options are the various end-fire and broad-side arrays, you
could get more gain, but gain-bandwidth would be limited.
I wish I had your problem:-)
Gary N4AST