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My 2 cents....

For what it's worth, I've used a horizontal wire dipole, in a "V" config. with great results and I now use a home brew vertical "galvanized conduit" dipole that will talk with the best of them. Back in the 60's, a buddy of mine made one 8'8" in either direction, it suited him fine til he got a "Super Magnum".
There's always the eBay way: http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38.l1311&_nkw=g5rv&_sacat=See-All-Categories
Or,
You can make your own and just use the many calculators from various websites to determine the length according to the frequency that you need it for. Mine is 8'8" x2, which is good for the whole cb band and works well for SSB as well.
10 Meter Dipole - N2UHC's Radio Stuff I used this basic design and constructed it to the length I needed.
I will use it til I finally can fit a beam into my budget.
Here's the finish product

<blockquote data-quote="KB1TPX" data-source="post: 126793" data-attributes="member: 7579">My 2 cents....For what it&#039;s worth, I&#039;ve used a horizontal wire dipole, in a &quot;V&quot; config. with great results and I now use a home brew vertical &quot;galvanized conduit&quot; dipole that will talk with the best of them. Back in the 60&#039;s, a buddy of mine made one 8&#039;8&quot; in either direction, it suited him fine til he got a &quot;Super Magnum&quot;.There&#039;s always the eBay way: <a href="http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=m38.l1311&amp;_nkw=g5rv&amp;_sacat=See-All-Categories" target="_blank">http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&amp;_trksid=m38.l1311&amp;_nkw=g5rv&amp;_sacat=See-All-Categories</a>Or,You can make your own and just use the many calculators from various websites to determine the length according to the frequency that you need it for. Mine is 8&#039;8&quot; x2, which is good for the whole cb band and works well for SSB as well.<a href="http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc_2/10m_dipole.html" target="_blank">10 Meter Dipole - N2UHC&#039;s Radio Stuff</a> I used this basic design and constructed it to the length I needed.I will use it til I finally can fit a beam into my budget.Here&#039;s the finish product</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KB1TPX, post: 126793, member: 7579"] [b]My 2 cents....[/b] For what it's worth, I've used a [I]horizontal wire dipole, in a "V" config.[/I] with great results and I now use a home brew vertical [I]"galvanized conduit"[/I] dipole that will talk with the best of them. Back in the 60's, a buddy of mine made one 8'8" in either direction, it suited him fine til he got a [I]"Super Magnum".[/I] There's always the eBay way: [URL]http://shop.ebay.com/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38.l1311&_nkw=g5rv&_sacat=See-All-Categories[/URL] Or, You can make your own and just use the many calculators from various websites to determine the length according to the frequency that you need it for. Mine is 8'8" x2, which is good for the whole cb band and works well for SSB as well. [URL="http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc_2/10m_dipole.html"]10 Meter Dipole - N2UHC's Radio Stuff[/URL] I used this basic design and constructed it to the length I needed. I will use it til I finally can fit a beam into my budget. Here's the finish product [/QUOTE]

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