[UK-CONTEST] Antenna advice!

[G3RAU at aol.com]

In a message dated 01/10/2008 22:07:14 GMT Daylight Time,  
g3sjj at btinternet.com writes:

Desperately needing some advice and guidance please!  I'm afraid  the bug 
> has now most definitely bitten and the more practice I get  the more I 
> feel that I want to stretch my wings and expand my  horizons.
>
> I would love to have a really reliable 80m antenna,  I'd also like to 
> have a bash at Top Band.  My problems are  threefold; space, experience 
> and money.
>
> In what is  rapidly becoming my aerial farm, I can't put up anything much 
> longer  than 100 feet.  I can't afford the four or five hundred pounds 
>  needed for a nice beam and I don't have enough knowledge to do viable 
>  experimentation.
>
> Any ideas or suggestions would be most  welcome!
>
> 73 Tammie M3ENF



Tammie,
The best thing is probably to read ON4UNs Low--band DXing book. It  will take 
you quite a while to read it (its very thick), but you will learn  an awful 
lot  believe me (members discount at the HFC RSGB  bookstore).  By the way, you 
can make perfectly good 160/80m antennas from  wire, you don't have to buy 
anything ready made. Have fun, Derek  G3RAU