Taurus 80M-6M Multi-Band Long Wire Dipole Antenna - inc WARC Bands

This is the perfect antenna for someone that doesn't have a lot of room. It is only 64 feet long. I see a lot of negative reviews from hams that say they have high swr readings. This antenna is designed to be used with an outboard tuner. If you're not using one forget it. I work 10 through 80 with my Dentron Super Tuner with no tuning issues whatsoever. Also it is designed to be run with a counterpoise - or - a ground - not both at the same time. I go to ground with mine. My antenna runs from the top of my garage door to a tree branch in the yard and back down to about 2 feet off the ground tied off with a stake and a bungee cord in an inverted v - The highest point being only 16 feet off the ground and it works amazingly well. I am running 400 watts plus through mine and have had no issues for a year so far.

First, there is some confusion in the printed length shown in the description, but the antenna I received from this Amazon entry was the 64ft. model, which is the length I wanted. Finally had some decent weather to get mine put up about a week ago, mounting the unun enclosure box onto my existing mast, at about 30ft, and then running the far end of the wire to a tie-off in a maple tree out in my back yard, sloping downward from the mast and ending at about 12ft off the ground. Connected a 17ft counterpoise wire to the ground terminal and ran it (also sloping downward) in the opposite direction. Using my IC-705 transceiver and the IC AH-705 ATU, I am able to tune up on every band from 160M to 6M, with a 1.3:1 SWR or less. Operating tests at the 705's QRP level are giving good transmission results across the bands, and reception is very good (of course QTH elevation figures in here, I'm at 1000ft ASL). Very satisfied with the performance of this antenna, but the true test will be in its longevity during the coming months/years to see how the components fare after lots of use and weather exposure. The wire's insulation is clear so not sure how the sun's UV rays will affect it over time. Not a deal breaker performance-wise if it breaks down, but curious to see how it lasts. For the price, I'm satisfied and would buy again. Shipped with good packaging and 4 days to my door. Sign me: 10 Watts and a Wire.

Surprisingly good antenna. I opened up the unun and was blown away by the quality that it contained. Magwire wrapped toroid decent soldering. The antenna wire itself is nice and flexible and the entire thing was fairly well constructed. Strain relief is non existent, however it was not hard to correct this. The little crimp on connectors were cheap, however; again not hard to correct with some better quality connectors. All in all a decent built antenna, especially for the price.Update after a few months: This antenna is great. I have worked DX contacts in Lithuania, Brazil, Costa Rica, South Africa and Hawaii from Central Texas with this antenna. Well worth the money. If I had it all to do again I would have bought the 160m version but this does everything it claims to do. I’ve worked 10-80m and good solid QSO’s on all of them. The rig is a Xiegu G90 and running the tuner my output is only 13w, so the antenna is very good.

The antenna seems to be well built with one exception; it does not have a strain relief for the antenna wire which causes a very weak connection to the unun. If you do not add a strain relief of some sort the wire will eventually break loose from the matching device connection. Other than that I am well satisfied with this antenna.

These antennas are not built to withstand real world conditions. The wire is nothing more than cheap speaker wire. Wire is junk, stranded copper is so soft it is prone to stretching and breaking under its own weight, also due to softness of the speaker wire it’s nearly impossible to get a good crimp connection at the union without soldering.I have had this antenna up for 3 days and have had to repair it 6 times. Due to this level of materials it would be better suited for attic installation so it can lay on roof joists. For the money, hassle and downtime of re-engineering this one you can build your own for 1/3 of the price and get many years of use out of it.I should have kept saving and bought a better one. Definitely not worth the money or the hassle

Put the antenna up this afternoon, in less-than-ideal conditions (about 16' at the feed point and 12' at the other end), went in the shack and tuned up 15M and had a confirmed contact in the Vancouver, BC area within 15 min or so. He reported a 5-9.

With an auto tuner able to work 6m thru 160m. Longest contact to date is Russia.

I cannot get 80 m to drop SWRs low enough for me to use that frequency. Had to work to get 40s in line but got it. Overall, works well!