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I am looking to build some antennas to use with some of my kenwood 805D radios. the first 2 of these will be installed on a base station Antenna 1 Priorities are: low cost, ease of build, low swr. Antenna 2 Priorities are low swr, durability, max range in one direction. Antenna 3 This antenna will be a field deployed on a 20' mast at a camp site Priorites are Maximum Durability, ease of erection, low swr Antenna 4 This antenna will be used on an atv Priorities are small size, safe for the atv rider nothing to poke in the eye or back, low swr Antenna style recomended for each application and reason why, building tips, exact measurements My skill set includes drilling soldering, welding, cutting glueing My materals available include ridgid copper pipe, solder joints, plastic pipe glue joints for plastic pipe, coper wire of varied sizes. several car radio antennas. some old CB antennas including long steel whips. a large old fiberglass base station CB antenna (radials are gone) Several pieces of coax some with ends some without ends Several old parts radios with coax ends other parts misc. I know I am asking for a lot of advise. Thank you for your help.