[Antennas] Effective ways to use lots of land, trees and wire?

Fri Jan 16 15:58:40 EST 2009

Is this thing on? No messages in >2 weeks...
I've got 12 acres, mostly wooded, lots of wire, and not a whole lot of 
money... I've got an 80m OCF about 50' in the trees now, which works 
reasonably well, but there ought to be a way to get more performance 
outa these trees and some more wire. I looked at rhombics, but they may 
be more directional than I'd want in a single stationary antenna. Any 
ideas on how I can put more wire up and get decent gain without high 
directivity? I could easily put up an antenna that's several 
wavelengths long at 80m, but most of the stuff I've found on-line i 
articles about how to get magic amounts of gain on all bands with small 
antennas...
73s, AJ4LL
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