[Premium-Rx] Broad Bandwidth HF RX Antenna

[Mark Donaldson]

I am looking for ideas on a wide bandwidth HF RX antenna for use with my premium receivers. Presently I have a 120ft dipole fed with openwire line about 80ft in elevation being fed with an antenna tuner. The present antenna is fine for my ham radio transmitting requirements but is not adequate for band cruising, I don't want to have to be readjusting the antenna tuner all the time. I don't have a very big lot but do border on a large amount of conservation land. Rhombics, discones and other huge antennas are out of the question but Beverage and othe long wire antennas are possible. I have been also looking into the T2FD antenna and terminated transmission line antennas as well. I would like to find an antenna that presents a reasonably nonreactive 50 Ohm load from 2 - 30 MHz, is reasonably efficient and has a broad antenna pattern, using a balun to do impedance transformations is not a problem for me either. I would be interested to hear your ideas and what some of you are using. 
 
73s
 
Mark  WA1QHQ