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MnMikew wrote:

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Hey Steve, how tall are your supports off the ground?

That pic was taken in 2001 when I first installed the system here, and the
shot
is from the end of the 100' W-E wire, looking west. That wire has now been
extended another 100'. I need to take another pic which I'll do this Fall.

dxAce

How much lead-in coax you using? My backyard is quite similar to yours. I
was going to put my wire on the neighbors chainlink fence which runs the
length of the yard, but the posts may work better.

MnMikew wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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MnMikew wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/pics.htm

Hey Steve, how tall are your supports off the ground?

That pic was taken in 2001 when I first installed the system here, and the
shot
is from the end of the 100' W-E wire, looking west. That wire has now been
extended another 100'. I need to take another pic which I'll do this Fall.

dxAce

How much lead-in coax you using? My backyard is quite similar to yours. I
was going to put my wire on the neighbors chainlink fence which runs the
length of the yard, but the posts may work better.

I think my longest run of co-ax is about 85' or so.

dxAce

(Steve) wrote:

I'm always curious about people's antennas, though they often go
unmentioned here. So, what's in your back yard (or on your roof, or in
your attic....)?

Steve

For shortwave reception I have a T2FD (tilted, terminated folded
dipole) and a 400 foot end-fed wire. The two go into a phaser/matcher
box before being distributed to the 5 receivers.

Other antennas include a bicone for V/UHF, a colinear for V/UHF ham
use, and a full-size vertical dipole on a CB that almost never gets
use.


--
Eric F. Richards,
"Making me root for a sanctimonious statist blowhard like Kerry isn't
the worst thing Bush has done to the country. But it's the offense
that I take most personally."
-- http://www.reason.com/links/links071304.shtml

"Steve" wrote in message
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I'm always curious about people's antennas, though they often go
unmentioned here. So, what's in your back yard (or on your roof, or in
your attic....)?

Steve

A G5RV and a 200ft 'Frankenstein" Roof Wire. There is more information,
photos and diagrams of them on my web page. See my signalture for the
link.....

--
Respectfully,

Michael

Location: New Jersey
Primary Receiver: R-75 with full Kiwa mods
Antennas: G5RV, 200ft "Frankenstein" roof wire
Additional Radios: KA-1101,KA-1102,PL-550,
KA-989, Info-Mate 837, GE-SR III
Westinghouse H-104 (seven tube)
Web Site: http://md_dxing.tripod.com

"MnMikew" wrote in message
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"dxAce" wrote in message
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MnMikew wrote:

"dxAce" wrote in message
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http://www.iserv.net/~n8kdv/pics.htm

Hey Steve, how tall are your supports off the ground?

That pic was taken in 2001 when I first installed the system here, and
the
shot
is from the end of the 100' W-E wire, looking west. That wire has now
been
extended another 100'. I need to take another pic which I'll do this
Fall.

dxAce

How much lead-in coax you using? My backyard is quite similar to yours. I
was going to put my wire on the neighbors chainlink fence which runs the
length of the yard, but the posts may work better.

At the risk of sounding -really- stupid, I just have to ask this. I've read
about using your window screen for an antenna; what about hooking directly
up to the chain link fence itself? Would it work? It's grounded, so maybe
not. I don't know, so I'm asking!

In article , sdaniel13
@nyc.rr.com says...
I'm always curious about people's antennas, though they often go
unmentioned here. So, what's in your back yard (or on your roof, or in
your attic....)?

Steve



I have a sloping dipole from the tower to the fence corner, cut for
about 15MHZ.
There's a Alpha Delta Sloper, the shorter one, off the tower to a roof
vent. It needs to be replaced. It's in bad shape, almost 20 years old.
I have a short dipole in the attic as a back up.
A discone in the attic for one scanner, and two Scantennas for the
others.
A ringo ranger on top of the tower for railband and the occasional 2M
use.

Scanners:

Base:
RS PRO 2004, 2005, 2006
BC 9000XLT

Handhelds:

RS Pro 93
RS Pro 43
RS Pro 42
RS Pro 37
Yaesu VR500
Icom R2
Yupi 9000
Icom R10 (dead) but should soon be back up and running.

BDK

(Steve) wrote ...

what's in your back yard (or on your roof, or in
your attic....)?


250 ft random wire. Perverted-V formation. (Inverted-V with several
irregular twists and turns due to adjacent trees and available
supports).

The antenna seems to work fine from MW to 10m. I'll be adding another
140 ft to it later this month - in time for some MW dx-ing this
winter.

Feeding a Sears-branded Frog-7, a Frog-A-Hundred, and a Drake R4c.

-=jd=- wrote:

On Fri 10 Sep 2004 01:16:06p, (Steve) wrote in
message om:

I'm always curious about people's antennas, though they often go
unmentioned here. So, what's in your back yard (or on your roof, or in
your attic....)?

Steve


Mine defines "homemade", but worked out well for me:

I found a spool of 14 gauge stranded with insulation that precisely
matches the color of the ceilings in our home. Using white electrical
staples, I mounted it at the wall-to ceiling point, and ran it straight
through the family room, down a long hallway, and into my shack, across
the ceiling there, and terminating about 3' above my receiver, where I
joined it to coax and the coax to an antenna connector for input. It is
55' long, and mounted 7.5 feet above grade. I used this alone for about
a month, and was very pleased with the results.

In an effort to "notch it up a bit" (don't all antenna experimenters?) I
ran an additional 55' of the wire around the ceiling/wall juncture of my
shack. It goes around exactly 1 and 1/4 times, (also 7.5 feet up) and
again drops to 3' above the receiver, where it joins the coax at the
same point as the original wire. I now had a 110' longwire antenna,
center-tapped.

I read here a few months back where a poster remarked that doubling a
50' random wire to 100' would increase signal strength by only 3dB.
That's basically what I found, too. There is a slight edge to signal
strength since I went to 110', but only slight. The 55' alone gave me
good results. Receiver is an Icom R-75, by the way.

I like the relative "invisibility" of teh way I did it. 110' of
antenna, and no one even notices it unless it's pointed out to them.
Even my wife didn't notice it for more than 6 weeks after I installed
it, and had no problem with it when she did notice it ("Gee,you can
barely see it.")

Comments/suggestions welcome - I'm always trying to learn more.

Tony

In article ,
(Steve) wrote:

I'm always curious about people's antennas, though they often go
unmentioned here. So, what's in your back yard (or on your roof, or in
your attic....)?

I have two different length folded dipole antenna and a horizontal loop.
They are connected to radios with Balun to coax.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

Honus wrote:

At the risk of sounding -really- stupid, I just have to ask this. I've read
about using your window screen for an antenna


Tried it. Not good. LOTS of buzzing sounds picked up, but strangely
enough, never in the winter.




mike