The ARRL handbook has information for designing antennas. A vertical 5/8 wave made from copper would be expensive and hard to keep working due to corrosion. However if you went that way a light tin coat would help. There are ways to put tin coating on copper without hot dipping. Electro-less tin plating is one way.
Aluminum tubing would be best, but that's just my opinion.
The best antenna for skip shooting is a long wire horizontal. Once the signal bounces the polarity is ambiguous any way. Great for skip, not so good for local talking though. There is a lot less EMI on the Horizontal orientation.
Last edited by Tallman; 08-31-2014 at 11:17 AM.
All answers are opinions and may, or may not be technically correct.
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