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Hi

I have had to short term rent a small house, there is a covenant on the
property, not to allow outside antenna's, my beam etc is out of the
question. I have a full size 5RV that I am happy to butcher if necessary,
any ideas how I can use this perhaps for 20 or 10. I don't want any major
work done as I should be moving again in the spring, I have very little
here, just a soldering iron and a few PL's everything is in storage.

Any quick idea's would be gratefully received.

G7UEK

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"Alan" wrote in message
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Hi

I have had to short term rent a small house, there is a covenant on the
property, not to allow outside antenna's, my beam etc is out of the
question. I have a full size 5RV that I am happy to butcher if necessary,
any ideas how I can use this perhaps for 20 or 10. I don't want any major
work done as I should be moving again in the spring, I have very little
here, just a soldering iron and a few PL's everything is in storage.

Any quick idea's would be gratefully received.

G7UEK

Alan
Why not just string a loop around the top of the highest room in the house,
and feed it with a tuner. In the past I had pretty good results with
this...not as good as a full sized outdoor antenna, but cheap and easy to
install.
--Wayne

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Wayne wrote:
Why not just string a loop around the top of the highest room in the house,
and feed it with a tuner. In the past I had pretty good results with
this...not as good as a full sized outdoor antenna, but cheap and easy to
install.

One can also use more than one room. It might give a
strange shaped loop but it allows adding more wire
until resonance is achieved on the lowest frequency
of interest. I once used 2 rooms and a hall for my
2nd story loop.

+--------+ +--------+
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FP +---------------+ |
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How's that for a loop? Fractal?
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

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"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
et...
Wayne wrote:
Why not just string a loop around the top of the highest room in the
house, and feed it with a tuner. In the past I had pretty good results
with this...not as good as a full sized outdoor antenna, but cheap and
easy to install.

One can also use more than one room. It might give a
strange shaped loop but it allows adding more wire
until resonance is achieved on the lowest frequency
of interest. I once used 2 rooms and a hall for my
2nd story loop.

+--------+ +--------+
| | | |
| | | |
FP +---------------+ |
| |
+---------------------------------+

How's that for a loop? Fractal?
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp
Great idea....I wish I had thought of that at the time. The biggest loop I
could get in the attic was for 15m, and it worked pretty well on 10 and 15.
On 20 it was suffering, but still useable. The one downside was that RF got
into my solid state heat/air control box and burned it up. A toroid over
the input wiring solved the problem.