Lou,

I've mentioned this guy in the past and would have no  problem buying 
another antenna from him:

http://www.freewebs.com/hypower/

He has a number of  single or multi band shortened antennas that   could fit 
in your yard.  The one I have is for 160, 80, 40 at 124 feet long.  about 20 
feet  hangs straight down from 1 end  to fit the yard.  Highest point is 
less than 40 ft., other end  less than 25 ft and weight of  coax pulls feed 
point down to less than 25 ft.    I've worked 47 states and 25 countries on 
160 with 100 watts.

Design is same as Alpha Delta, and W9INN (sk), with coils acting as high 
impedance to isolate various parts of the antenna.

I've used a G5RV for years and would never go back.   If you have enough 
space to squeeze in a G5RV, you have enough space to squeeze in something 
better.

73, Steve KW3A


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lou Kline" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2007 11:45 PM
Subject: Re: Tuning Ham sticks


> Hi.
>
> Mine is strung across my back yard, up about 25 ft.  With the lack of
> available supports, that was the best I could do.  I had to put about a 20
> degree bend in the one leg to get it to fit into my yard, and 
> unfortunately
> there is a chain link fence around my back yard that may be complicating
> things a lot.  I use 450 ohm ladder line for the balanced portion  of the
> feed, with a 1:1 balun and then RG8X going back to the radio.  I used a
> dummy load to verify that there is no problem with the coax, and all
> connections are clean and good.  I only have a 90 x 62 ft. area to work 
> in,
> and am beginning to think that there is no way to put an efficient HF
> multiband antenna system in an area that small.
>
> 73, de Lou K2LKK
>
>