Terry, Have you considered an 80 meter inverted L?
It takes up little real estate for the radiator, but does require putting down a ground screen at the base of the inverted L. If you do not wish to bury 32 radials for a ground screen, consider using resonant elevated radials. Two elevated radials running in opposing directions will do the job nicely.
Put the elevated radials above ground by about 10 feet to keep them out of the range of humans and deer and other things running into them and causing harm. If there are horse riders who will be riding through your property, you may want to increase the height to 15 feet.
73, Don W3FPR On 1/1/2017 4:55 PM, Terry Brown wrote:
I am moving from my current QTH where I have a horizontal loop up about 35-40 ft. that is a bit longer than 1 wavelength on 80. I feed it at one corner with 450 ohm twin lead connected to a 4:1 voltage balun, then coax to my rig. I can tune all the ham bands either barefoot to my K2 or KX3 and the KXPA100 using their internal tuners.
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