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Want to see if I am doing anything wrong. I have a par end fed wire antenna. I took the box thing that hooks to my coax and attached 60 feet of wire and ran the wire about 50 feet through my trees. Is there supposed to be something on the end of the wire or ok to tie off on a tree? I ran it this way last winter on a Icom 705. Seemed to work ok but the noise level was a bit high. Got away from it for a bit and looking to get back into HF listening. Don't have the 707 so am looking for a good HF rig. Have my R30 for now. My other post of the super antenna responses was not a good idea. So, going back to a wire, want a better experience. Have googled allot on this. Suggestions welcomed.