RHF wrote:
However - The Practical {Use} Equation {Societal Factoring}
may make the 'near invisibility' of the Small {Short-and-Thin}
Vertical Whip Antenna the only realistic choice for an Antenna
by a Shortwave Listener (SWL) "When NO Antenna Is Allowed."

what antenna ? i don't see an antenna :
i ain't got no stinking antenna ~ RHF

My 6 DA100E whips and 2 ALA1530s are disguised as bird feeders
and bird houses, not because of any restriction but because it
makes it neighbor-friendly.

loop in foreground and whip in background
http://home.att.net/~rhhardin/antenna.jpg


Both are supported by 8' ground rods tapped in a few feet; the
ALA1530 is on a galvinized pipe slipped over the ground rod,
with a floor flange screwed on the bottom so it doesn't sink
into the ground, making it rotatable by hand. The coax comes off
the outside of the pipe and makes a few turns looped around the pipe
for slack, this loop being covered by a stove burner reflector
against lawnmower attacks.

The bird feeder is supported by the antenna rather than vice
versa, incidentally.

--
Ron Hardin


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