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WD, the videos from Dave Tadlock are good I have watched a lot of them. On you antenna a dipole is a good place to start. The most reliable bands right now are 80-40 and 20 meters. 80 m dipole is around 130'. You probably want to hang it north - south that will get you east - west reception (west coast and Europe) if you can get it flat. Right now you can't talk on any of those bands, a good practice Dipole would be 10m and daily small a band you can talk on if anyone is there lol. Remember trees can be your friend for hanging wire antennas. The EFHW-8010 antenna I posted a while back is still a easy to get in the air and covers all the bands 80-10, very stealth but 130' long. It may not be the best antenna you can put up but i have had really good luck with mine and have talked all over the world with it. BF also just built a antenna out of ladder line that seems to working well, he will help with it if you want to build it.

<blockquote data-quote="firerunner" data-source="post: 563304" data-attributes="member: 43157"><p>WD, the videos from Dave Tadlock are good I have watched a lot of them. On you antenna a dipole is a good place to start. The most reliable bands right now are 80-40 and 20 meters. 80 m dipole is around 130&#039;. You probably want to hang it north - south that will get you east - west reception (west coast and Europe) if you can get it flat.&nbsp; Right now you can&#039;t talk on any of those bands, a good practice Dipole would be 10m and daily small a band you can talk on if anyone is there lol. Remember trees can be your friend for hanging wire antennas. The EFHW-8010 antenna I posted a while back is still a easy to get in the air and covers all the&nbsp; bands 80-10, very stealth but 130&#039; long. It may not be the best antenna you can put up but i have had really good luck with mine and have talked all over the world with it. BF also just built a antenna out of ladder line that seems to working well, he will help with it if you want to build it.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="firerunner, post: 563304, member: 43157"] WD, the videos from Dave Tadlock are good I have watched a lot of them. On you antenna a dipole is a good place to start. The most reliable bands right now are 80-40 and 20 meters. 80 m dipole is around 130'. You probably want to hang it north - south that will get you east - west reception (west coast and Europe) if you can get it flat. Right now you can't talk on any of those bands, a good practice Dipole would be 10m and daily small a band you can talk on if anyone is there lol. Remember trees can be your friend for hanging wire antennas. The EFHW-8010 antenna I posted a while back is still a easy to get in the air and covers all the bands 80-10, very stealth but 130' long. It may not be the best antenna you can put up but i have had really good luck with mine and have talked all over the world with it. BF also just built a antenna out of ladder line that seems to working well, he will help with it if you want to build it. [/QUOTE]

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