"Jon Lippert" wrote in message
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Greetings! I have been thinking about putting up a 40 meter dipole on my
roof.
My roof runs 68' long so it sounded good to me. My question is this. I
was
thinking about instead just putting up a longwire there instead. Would the
antenna work better for general shortwave listening if I made it an end
fed
antenna instead of a 40 meter dipole? If it would work just as well as
the
dipole I will just do that, but if it would work better for shortwave as
an end
fed antenna I would prefer to do that just now as we are in the season.
Give
me the benefit of your knowledge. Thanks a bunch and have a great week!
Jon.

I believe a longwire or random wire antenna will generally give better
results over a broad range of frequencies, where a dipole would be better
suited for receiving one particular desired band. I'm sure there are others
here more knowledgeable who can add to this in more detail. Good luck.

-Brian