Quote Originally Posted by KJ3N View Post
I hope you're young and paid well. I wouldn't do that.

An 80m doublet fed with ladder line should take less than an hour to make. I've wasted more time getting the support ropes into the trees than I spent building the antenna.
Im paid moderately well. Gets the bills paid. Not much left over anymore like there used to be. Im 45 so not old but not a stud anymore either...lol

I got trees aroind the house but also close neighbors and hv power lines all over so my hanging options are limited. Cant afford a vertical so thats why im thinking dipole IF i can work around these issues