[Antennas] Problem Installation

Thu Jul 27 11:29:41 EDT 2006

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Question: I want to put up an antenna, mostly for 160, 80 and 30 meters as 
I currently have no antennas for those bands. My only other antenna which 
is a trapped beam covers all the amateur bands from 7 MHz upward until 10 
meters, except 30 meters.
I have a 50 foot tower with that beam located about 150 feet from the house. 
I have a feedline to the tower and a remote coaxial feed line switch at the 
base of the tower with three open slots.
The problem is that there is a driveway between the house and the tower, so 
I cannot have a dangling feedline. I can however put a feedline from the 
house end about 40 feet away as there is a section of the ground floor which 
has no first floor under it, this measures 40 feet if I measure the distance 
(diagonal) that a wire from the tower to the 2nd floor roof would be above 
that first floor roof.
What type of antenna (wire) would give me as much take off angles as 
possible as I'd like to work local and DX.
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73
David N1EA