[CQ-Contest] awesome upgrades to the 8 band vertical!!

[Hanlon, Steve]

enough of the geo-politics, i am in the process of putting up a 50' tower and am looking for some advice.  my plan is to put an A3 on top with wires for 40m and 80m.  i enjoy SSB contesting and hope to get to the point of CW contesting.

should i cut the wires for 40m and 80m to the center of the band to work both modes or should i have dipoles for each mode for each band?  i'm only running 100 watts from the 746PRO and it has a built in tuner to "tune" the dipoles.  i'm not sure what the cost of going for the center of the bands will be in terms of power loss.

i am also looking to put up a sloper for 160m using the design in the ARRL wire antenna book.  it uses 90 turns at the top of a 40' tower with 63 or so feet sloping to the earth.

any suggestions would be helpful - i'm tired of the stick in the mud vertical with S7 noise levels.

-steve hanlon
KB3KAQ