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Be sure that the Gutters are not grounded. If you have Aluminum Siding, the
gutters maybe attached to the siding. A quick check with an ohmmeter should verify that. Other wise the gutters make a great antenna. "Rayburn" wrote in message ... Copper and aluminum Gutters work great!...If they only run across the front and back of the house you can connect them with a small wire across the roof to make for a nice long antenna! For example I'm hooked to the bottom of a downspout near the ground on my 3 story home....about 28 feet up the guttering starts and runs 25 feet across the back of the house......I connected a wire across the roof (60 feet long) to the end of the front gutter thats the same height and length. 166 feet of antenna in the shape of an upside down U ! I buried a couple of ground radials next to a fence for 160...80....40 and added a few short ones for 20 /15 and 10 about an inch deep in the yard.....works great with a tuner and is fantastic on the L and AM bands for reception as well! Other than a small 4 inch length of coax behind the house next to the garage door.....Its invisible! wrote in message ups.com... Help. I've been licensed since 1967, but I haven't been active for about 20 years. I just bought a FT-101EE with a Cushcraft R4 vertical antenna, however there are restrictions in my subdivision about antennas. I'm thinking my best bet may be a long wire between my house and a neighbor's tree with a tuner. I know this is an ago old battle, any ideas for an inconspicuous HF antenna? |
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Do you have licence? If yes, you are legall, put antenna up!!!!!
Dont listen this all b. s. wrote in message ups.com... Help. I've been licensed since 1967, but I haven't been active for about 20 years. I just bought a FT-101EE with a Cushcraft R4 vertical antenna, however there are restrictions in my subdivision about antennas. I'm thinking my best bet may be a long wire between my house and a neighbor's tree with a tuner. I know this is an ago old battle, any ideas for an inconspicuous HF antenna? |
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Siding works too. depending on if it's grounded or not.
I think my strangest antenna was when I connected wires from my tuner to each of the two window screens in the corner room. I worked california from Georgia on 10 meters. Buck N4PGW On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 15:02:25 -0400, "Howard W3CQH" wrote: Be sure that the Gutters are not grounded. If you have Aluminum Siding, the gutters maybe attached to the siding. A quick check with an ohmmeter should verify that. Other wise the gutters make a great antenna. "Rayburn" wrote in message .. . Copper and aluminum Gutters work great!...If they only run across the front and back of the house you can connect them with a small wire across the roof to make for a nice long antenna! For example I'm hooked to the bottom of a downspout near the ground on my 3 story home....about 28 feet up the guttering starts and runs 25 feet across the back of the house......I connected a wire across the roof (60 feet long) to the end of the front gutter thats the same height and length. 166 feet of antenna in the shape of an upside down U ! I buried a couple of ground radials next to a fence for 160...80....40 and added a few short ones for 20 /15 and 10 about an inch deep in the yard.....works great with a tuner and is fantastic on the L and AM bands for reception as well! Other than a small 4 inch length of coax behind the house next to the garage door.....Its invisible! wrote in message ups.com... Help. I've been licensed since 1967, but I haven't been active for about 20 years. I just bought a FT-101EE with a Cushcraft R4 vertical antenna, however there are restrictions in my subdivision about antennas. I'm thinking my best bet may be a long wire between my house and a neighbor's tree with a tuner. I know this is an ago old battle, any ideas for an inconspicuous HF antenna? -- 73 for now Buck N4PGW |
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:23:22 -0400, Buck wrote: I think my strangest antenna was when I connected wires from my tuner to each of the two window screens in the corner room. I worked california from Georgia on 10 meters. ------------ REPLY SEPARATOR ------------ My strangest was a six meter dipole buried about a foot underground. I worked one station about ten miles away. About a week later I received my WAE award. (Worked All Earthworms). Bill, W6WRT |
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 21:34:49 -0700, Bill Turner
wrote: ORIGINAL MESSAGE: On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 22:23:22 -0400, Buck wrote: I think my strangest antenna was when I connected wires from my tuner to each of the two window screens in the corner room. I worked california from Georgia on 10 meters. ------------ REPLY SEPARATOR ------------ My strangest was a six meter dipole buried about a foot underground. I worked one station about ten miles away. About a week later I received my WAE award. (Worked All Earthworms). Bill, W6WRT How did you wind up with a dipole buried underground? Were you trying to make a resonant dummy load? -- 73 for now Buck N4PGW |
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Bob wrote:
Do you have licence? If yes, you are legall, put antenna up!!!!! Dont listen this all b. s. ------ reply separator ------- This is not quite accurate. If he signed a contract, i.e. agreed to a set of CC&Rs in a private subdivision at the time of purchase, he is obliged to honor the contract. Contract law in private, not public, domain trumps PRB-1. ------ reply separator ------- wrote in message ups.com... Help. I've been licensed since 1967, but I haven't been active for about 20 years. I just bought a FT-101EE with a Cushcraft R4 vertical antenna, however there are restrictions in my subdivision about antennas. I'm thinking my best bet may be a long wire between my house and a neighbor's tree with a tuner. I know this is an ago old battle, any ideas for an inconspicuous HF antenna? |
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On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 05:43:25 -0400, Buck wrote: How did you wind up with a dipole buried underground? Were you trying to make a resonant dummy load? ------------ REPLY SEPARATOR ------------ There was an article in QST about underground antennas. It might have been an April fool's article but it was so long ago I don't remember for sure. I was 14 or 15 and anything seemed possible. :-) Years later I came to the conclusion that I worked the other guy with incidental radiation from the rig itself and/or the coax feedline, not the antenna itself. Bill, W6WRT |
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Bill Turner wrote:
There was an article in QST about underground antennas. It might have been an April fool's article but it was so long ago I don't remember for sure. I was 14 or 15 and anything seemed possible. :-) Back in the '50's, Larsen E. Rapp got me with one of those articles. He said we could create an "amplitude discriminator" with "back to back limiters". That way, we could simply discriminate by tuning out the strong signal and tuning in the weak signal. I asked W5OLV how to build back to back limiters. He couldn't stop laughing. -- 73, Cecil, http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp |
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Cecil Moore wrote:
Bill Turner wrote: There was an article in QST about underground antennas. It might have been an April fool's article but it was so long ago I don't remember for sure. I was 14 or 15 and anything seemed possible. :-) Back in the '50's, Larsen E. Rapp got me with one of those articles. He said we could create an "amplitude discriminator" with "back to back limiters". That way, we could simply discriminate by tuning out the strong signal and tuning in the weak signal. I asked W5OLV how to build back to back limiters. He couldn't stop laughing. I still like to think about an article in "Popular Electronics" back in the late 50's or early 60's about "CONTRA POLAR ENERGY". This principal worked in the exact opposite manner to regular energy: electric lamps absorbed light, heaters froze etc. It got me for many years until someone queried PE about it years later. The cat was let out out the bag. To bad it was an interesting concept. Dave N |
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"Dave" wrote in message . .. Bob wrote: Do you have licence? If yes, you are legall, put antenna up!!!!! Dont listen this all b. s. ------ reply separator ------- This is not quite accurate. If he signed a contract, i.e. agreed to a set of CC&Rs in a private subdivision at the time of purchase, he is obliged to honor the contract. Contract law in private, not public, domain trumps PRB-1. ------ reply separator ------- wrote in message ups.com... Help. I've been licensed since 1967, but I haven't been active for about 20 years. I just bought a FT-101EE with a Cushcraft R4 vertical antenna, however there are restrictions in my subdivision about antennas. I'm thinking my best bet may be a long wire between my house and a neighbor's tree with a tuner. I know this is an ago old battle, any ideas for an inconspicuous HF antenna? I believe President Bush just signed a law preventing subdivisions/HOAs from prohibiting flagpoles. Sounds like a flagpole antenna now trumps subdivisions/HOAs! |
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