Antennas
My second love. I love messing around with wire antennas. I have built just about every configuration I have ever read about and even designed a few of my own. But, cut to the chase; A full wave, horizontal loop as high as you can get it; fed by ladder line all the way to the tuner is just about as good as they get. There are days and freq’s where a DEZ might do better but they are few and far between.
I currently use one 264 foot long, tied at all 4 corners to trees at about 30 feet. My next project will be to get it about 10-15 foot higher. This is my primary 80 and 40 antenna. It just works!
For higher freqs, I have a force12 CS3 on a 17 foot GM roof mounted tower. It has served me well on 20-10m.
Finally, I have a DEZ anchored between 2 trees about 300 feet apart. I find myself using this one less and less.