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Below is a drawing of a fan dipole antenna designed for 4 bands. You should be able to achieve a match on 4 ham radio bands with near mono band performance. I was able to tune it with an antenna tuner on all ham bands With A decent bandwidth.

Start with the longest wire antenna element first, achieve a good match on it then work your way to the shortest. The spacing of the wires is not criticle. You can make spacers from any insulator.

You can use a tuner fo all ham radio bands from 40-10 meters, this is a much better performer than a g5rv antenna or trap type dipole antenna. Ideally 75 ohm twinlead would be best but coax will work fine.

I have found that this antenna out performs all that I have tryed for swl listening.

The lenghts below are approximate.

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