" Ron" wrote in message
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Hi

I have a 50 ft tower just ready to throw up something to operate.

Cost is the problem but I have a lot of parts to build. I want to put up a
dipole (I have a manual all band tuner) and my question is should feed it
with ladder line or feed it with coax and then run each leg about 68 ft .

Second idea is I have an old aluminum omni antenna that used to have 3
traps
within it, however at that height it will come down quickly as this
antenna
is meant to be on the ground (no ground planes) so I want to make this
omni
as long as practically possible and tune it to utilize it as best
possible.

Any suggestions? This is really all I have to work with. Only want to
climb
this thing a couple times and hope its good for the winter.

A commercially built Yagi will usually work out of the box on a tower if you
measure carefully. A G5RV will work without much fiddling. The vertical
won't be worth anything on the tower. If you want to shunt feed the tower
and extend it another 17 ft. you could probably do well on 40 and 30 meters
in the wee hours of the morning. You should post in RRA Antenna newsgroup,
as there are experts who will have a lot of detail and time on their hands
and are fun to watch bicker.