If you cut it for say 3800, the swr will be quite low all over the phone band.
If you use a tube rig, it seems to be no problem at all.
If built right, fat wire and balanced, the swr will not go past about 1.8 to 1.
With good coax, on lower bands, and shorter coax runs, I dont think you get much loss at all in typical operation even with much higher swr.
Other advantages are, no power limit other than the coax, no weather changes to the swr, nothing to change, burn out, twist up, short out, fall off, saturate, plus it can be made out of almost any wire you have around.
I have spools of #6 copper wire I might try...
Brett
How does a dipole or inverted vee cut for 3.885 Mhz play on 3.690 Mhz??? I imagine a tuner would put it there right?