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Multi-band antenna.
The schematic.

This antenna utilises a commercial automatic antenna tuner. Rather than having the heavy tuner mounted up high, I used home-made open wire feedline from the elevated feedpoint of a 34 metre doublet to a much lower mounted antenna tuner.
 
 
Open wire fed doublet
 
 
The feedline to tuner connection.

The feedline conducors are separated and fed to the rf output and rf ground terminations. The incoming coaxial cable and power supply leads are looped through a toriod several turns, to help minimise rf currents returning to the transceiver.
 
 
Feedline to tuner connection
 
 
The antenna feedline connection view

The feedline is supported by a piece of electrical conduit mounted on the fascia to keep the feedline away from the metal gutter.
 
 
Antenna connection
 
       
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