You don't really need a "kit" to build a long wire antenna.

All the parts can be purchased at your favorite local hardware store,
or at your not so local, bigger than a supermarket, national chain
home and building supply store.

Here is what you will need:

1. as much wire as you can get in the air, plus the number of feet it
takes to get from outside to where your rig is located. This can be
one continuous piece of wire. Choose an insolated wire in a color that
will best blend in with your building and its surrounding foliage.
So, it may need to be two pieces of wire of different colors. The rule
of thumb for an end fed random wire is, "The longer, the better." This
is especially true if you plan to spend much time on 80 or 160 meters.

2. You will need at least 2, and possibly 3 or more insulators. One of
these insulators will be attached to the far end of the wire, the
second at the point where the wire is supported just outside your
building. Use additional insulators if need be, but for an apartment
situation, two will likely be all you will need.

3. A length of outdoor grade rope. Part of this rope will tie to the
end of the insulators that is fastened to the far end of the wire, and
thence to the end support tree, building, fence post, etc. A short
length of rope will also be needed to anchor the insulators used near
your building.

4. Depending on what you are able to use as tie points for the support
ropes, you may also need one or two closed Eye bolts, most likely
those made for screwing into wood.

5. A willing sighted ham to help you watch out for power lines and 
neighbors, or a friend or relative who doesn't know any better than to 
do whatever you tell him/her while the antenna is being
installed.

For the wire, I have used everything from one side of ordinary speaker
wire that was pulled apart in order to use the half of the wire that
blended in with my building, to a run of green #12 wire that looked
very much like a vine climbing through the trees.


Mike Duke, K5XU