[Badger52]

I like albeham's idea. Mid-summer I began playing with an end-fed solution that was originally envisioned as a sloper. The RF will tend to predominately come off the high-end, headed toward the low end (where it's fed). You'll get sky-wave and quite a bit of distance (depending on height, driven by freq & how far the shot is, etc.). It can be quite effective in getting somewhere on the first hop or two. Sometimes a bit of directionality can be a good thing too.

A plus to an end-fed is you really only need 1 support. (In theory, sloping low-to-high, you could pivot your operating position about the high-end and serve more than one target for the shot.)

But as albeham says, what really gets interesting is if you go ahead and flat-top the thing as if it were a dipole, if you have a couple of supports. You'll still get a good bit of signal headed back "over the shoulder" so to speak toward the fed end, but it plays VERY well broadside to the wire as well.

Note: If for some reason you need to feed the thing with coax, make or get a little 9:1 UNUN for your "don't leave home without it" bag & run a counterpoise off one side of that, maybe 1/4 of the wire you have up in the air, along the ground tossed under the wire above.

Be interested to hear how things work out.