Ever wonder how to get a wire antenna up high enough to do anything of value? Many amateurs may climb their tower, or build a slingshot, or have the raw muscle to throw a rope into a tree. Maybe they use a telescoping mast or pole to get it to its ideal height. But many amateurs want a fast and simple solution. Here are some projects and guides to putting up a wire antenna.

•  "The W4SSY Spudgun" QST, March 2009 p. 67-69 A guide to making a line launcher based on an air-cannon. Build it with simple componets often found at the nearest hardware store, and have a tool that can send up your antenna as high up as you need. 
  

 The most popular HF antenna for hams with trees to use as antenna supports is the dipole.

• Five Bands, No Tuner  by G0FAH
  QST June 1995, p. 59
  A multiband dipole for 40, 20, 17, 12 and 10M.
  94 ft of wire center fed with 41 ft of ladder-line,
  a balun and coax back to the shack.
  
• The Off-Center-Fed Dipole Revisited: A Broadband, Multiband Antenna 
  QST August 1990, pp. 28-34
  A discussion of the Windom and the off-center-fed dipole as multiband antennas.
• Broad-Band 80-Meter Antenna  
  QST December 1980, pp. 36-37. Feedback, QST February 1981, p. 46.
  Construction and theory of operation of the "cage" broadband 80-meter antenna popular in the 1920s.
  Note: ARRLWeb: The "Cage" is Back! W1AW Installs New/Old Antenna.
• A Simple Broadband Dipole For 80 Meters
  QST September 1993 p. 27-30, 76.  A simple broadbanding technique using alternating  50 and 75 ohm coax.
• The G5RV Multiband Antenna ... Up-to-Date  
  ARRL Antenna Compendium Volume 1, pp. 86-90
  A short center-loaded 40-meter dipole for portable QRP
• K8SYL’s 75 and 10-Meter Dipole  
  QST July 2002, pp. 32-34
• The K4VX Linear-Loaded Dipole for 7 MHz 
  QST July 2002, pp. 40-42
  A short but efficient 40-meter dipole
• A Triband Dipole for 30, 17, and 12 meters
  QEX March 2015
•  "This Old Dipole"or Dipole 101 An antenna construction workshop conducted at Marshall N1FN's QTH on Sunday, 8/2/98 (An EXCELLENT step-by-step with color photos on constructing a dipole. - Ed.)

• Broadband Transmitting Wire Antennas for 160 through 10 Meters 
  QST November 1995, pp.22-24
  A traveling-wave antenna offers some attractive qualities for your station: 50 ohm feedpoint at ground level, no tuner required, horizontal and vertical radiation components, no radials, nothing in the air but wire, and flexible size and height requirements.
• Zip-Cord Antennas - Do They Work?
  QST March 1979, pp. 31-32
  Parallel power cord is readily available and is easy to work with. How efficient is it when used at radio frequencies? Well, that depends.
  
• The N4GG Array
  QST July 2002, pp. 35-39
  A simple, nearly invisible, multiband wire antenna with reasonable gain, low angle of radiation.
• A High Gain Single Wire Beam by Robert Wilson, AL7KK
  QST July 2009, pp 38-39
  The author now recommends feeding this antenna directly with a 4:1 balun instead of the shunt inductor arrangement suggested in the article.