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yes it is a called a balun-- for a standard dipole i would use a 4:1 current balun- depending on what band you are going to cut you wire for- you might want to build a OCF dipole- "off center fed " for a 80m it would be a total length of 136' 90 feet one side and 46 on other.. this here should...
LOOK AT MAKING A CAROLINA WINDOM OR A LOOP.. THOSE TWO ARE VERY GOOD WIRE ANTENNAS, ALSO YOU CAN DO A DOUBLE END ZEP THOSE AR ALSO VERY EFFECTIVE AND WITH THAT MUCH ROOM YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO STRING UP SOME PRETTY DECENT SIZE ANTENNAS..
Station #1– FT2000 hooked to a ameriton 811h to a 80 meter windom, Mic. is a AudioTechnica ATR20 with a BY-2 Bencher paddles.. Use this for mostly CW and bpsk31 & rtty..
Station #2 is a Kenwood TS 2000 hooked to a tri-band rotatable dipole "yes a driving element off a 3 element 10/15/20...
i ahve the ts 2000 an it work very well on vhf/uhf.. i lik eit cause you have 100 watts on 2 meters which i do alot of ssb.. also it does fine on hf also but for me it did not have the correct filtering for cw. on phone it works well, i like the compact size of the rig, the auto tuner does...
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