Hi all,
Although I have read many posts, this is my first thread having just joined the forum...
I have recently moved house and I would like to put up an HF wire antenna. It needs to be low impact / stealth and I can really only 'get away' with one.
My main aim is to get a strong signal out for DX & 'local' contacts, so I can work what I hear.
So my questions are
(1) is a resonant dipole likely to outperform a multibander like a GR5V / doublet by any significant margin?
(2) If you could only pick one band, which would it be?
I reckon I could get away with a 40m 1/2 wave dipole and suspend it at the rear of my house between two supports... 23' at the low end and 30' at the high end. So almost flat but not quite. But if a multibander would perform equally as well across a few bands, clearly that would be the winner...
Thoughts?
p.s. I have just bought a 100m drum of #14 copper wire... so I'm going to start building
