I've a nice dipole made of bare wire ladder line (both conductors serving as one 'wire' of a leg), some 65FT or so in length per leg.

It has four legs, two for each 'side' and two are slightly longer than the other two which makes it a little broader, I guess. So it is a kind of fan dipole I suppose. It's a Tekrad, very old, not made any more. Found it new in the box at a fest for $10. tekrad mark V.jpg

It is fed by an integral section of the same open wire line. This is run into the shack to the back of the tuner. The tuner is an MFJ 989. The "3KW" 989 adequate for SSB but for high duty modes @ QRO the ceramic trimmer used for calibration on the measurement board has to be replaced with something better like a small air trimmer because it will arc and burn.

A 1:1 current balun is used from the tuner's coaxial output to the open wire transmission line. This works well and tunes all bands 80-10 fairly easily. It's a bit sharp on 80M. I had used a 4:1 previously but it caused high current on the SO239s. Results are more satisfactory with a 1:1. The point is that I do not use the tuner's internal balun.

I'm no expert on antennas but this has not given me any trouble.