As long as you have some binding posts, cheap speaker wire, a suitable feed line, and a convenient support structure (i.e. a mast), you can make a decent HF vertical in only a few hours.
In this video, Walt (K4OGO) assembles all of these pieces and makes vertical antennas for the Amateur Radio bands between 20 and 10 meters.
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Here are some comments from Walt (K4OGO):
Build an effective and inexpensive vertical antenna for any HF band. In this video I show you how to make speaker wire verticals to cover 20 through 10 meters. #hamradioantenna #hamradio #amateurradio
Link to my drawing plan can be found on the Coastal Waves & Wires Facebook page.
Transcript
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COASTAL WAVES & WIRES
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Thanks for joining us today.
Aloha es 73 de Russ (KH6JRM).
