In article , VE3TMT
wrote:

I have come to the conclusion the only antenna I am going to be able to use
is a ground mounted dipole or random wire. No antenna supports in the yard,
no fences, no attic. I tried a vertical "flagpole" but it is just too noisy.
Nothing but me and the yards of my two neighbours. I am able to run about
60 feet of 22 gauge green enameled wire along the length of the yards. I
have done extensive reading on NVIS propagation, but I'm curious if anyone
is actually using this method on 160, 80 or 40m.

Thanks,

Max



We used an NVIS for Field Day this year, and it was a lot of fun. Good
for 40 and 80, and that's about it. Ours was built after the Jelenik
design (http://www1.vcars.org:8040/CARL/NVIS.html), with an SGC tuner
at the base.

73--

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Namaste-

Bob Miller wrote:
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 18:52:30 GMT, Richard Clark
wrote:



What few dipole users would admit (because they love to crow about not
having radials) is that if you add radials, you can further improve
your dipole performance up AND tangentially.


Where would I attach radials on a dipole?

Just remove the bias plys and substitute the radials! 8^)

But seriously, they are set the same way as you would on a vertical, in
the ground. And Richard is right.

- Mike KB3EIA -

How did you find out? That is exactly what I use as a stealth antenna. I have a
bicycle out in front of theapartment in the bike rack, with the very whip you
described with the triangle orange flag on the top to decieve the cops, and I
run coax from the house to the bike, running it up the kickstand, across the
frame to the 'flag' on the back. With it parked in the bike rack here at the
apartment complex with all the other kid's bikes, no-one seems to notice a
thing. I keep the power down on transmit just in case some kid just happens to
be getting his bike from the bike rack at the same time I am txing.
jkhh