Thank you kindly for all the info

I have a lot of wire, can make any dipole, I have this 50ft tower that I
want to make a dipole and omni on the top.

The omni I want to be tunable so I can use it on other bands such as marine
band, to communicate with my boat

I have the manual tuner with reflected power measurements, so that is ok. I
want to know what is better, the dipole fed with coax or fed with ladder
line. The coax will run out the house, past the alumninum siding and be
taped to the tower, the ladder line I can run out the house, past the same
aluminum siding but can keep away from the tower about 4 feet until it
reaches the top where the dipole will split it and run the longest length I
can (I have the room) so that I can utilize all the bands with my tuner.

All suggestions and advice are excellent and I hope to hear and learn more

thanks

73







"JB" wrote in message
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"Kenneth Scharf" wrote in message
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JB wrote:
A 4btv trap vertical or the like would be a different matter, requiring
some
fiddling. A Yagi and (or) G5RV would require a minimum of fiddling. A
ladder line fed homemade G5RV in inverted vee would be the least
expensive I
could think of. A used 3 element Yagis can be cleaned up and re-used
later..

The trap vertical that was mentioned would probably be a real hassle to
tune-up on the tower.

The GAP Titan can be dumped out of the box, assembled (use a tape
measure to get everything as per the manual) and put up without ANY
fooling around. You *MIGHT* have to make a minor adjustment to get the
80 and 40 meter bands right with the lowest SWR centered in the middle
of the band segment that you operate most, but mine came out perfect
using the factory directions.

You are telling me that the measurements are the same for tower mounting?