On 10 Sep 2004 10:16:06 -0700, 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....)?

For receiving, an active loop on a rotator - it has a very deep null
which is useful. Mounted in the attic atm for testing, but due to be
moved to the bottom of the garden further away from all the tv/computer
etc interference. It feeds the receivers via a 4-way multi-coupler.

I can also use the ham antennas if I want to.

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Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb .at. dial .dot. pipex .dot. com
(Remove any digits from the addresses when mailing me.)

The future was never like this!

(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

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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.....

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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

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@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.

KK4TL wrote:

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


How would you compare the 100 to the frg-7? (other than the display, of
course..) I can pick up new one for a bit under 800 $CAN. Is it worth it?





mike

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(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

Good question Steve.

Currently I am using a 2 loop Wellbrook K9AY & Wellbrook ALA1530. I have a
very small yard...29' x 58'....I don't think any other antennas would do
better on Tropical bands & MW in that space? Suggestions ? I also use a
Quantum Phaser with this pair sometimes on MW.

The K9AY is used with a MFJ fiberglass push up mast 26 ft tall. the ALA1530
is mounted to my wooden fence 5ft high .

I also have a Quantum QX Loop I use from time to time on MW.

73, Ken


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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

"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....)?

55 ft. random wire coax-fed via balun
Eavesdropper dipole
Slinky dipole (currently unused)
Radio Shack discone antenna (for scanner)
All in attic of my house

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"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....)?

55 ft. random wire coax-fed via balun
Eavesdropper dipole

Hi, I'm very curious about the Eavesdropper-T and Eavesdropper-C
dipoles (see Universal-Radio online catalog) for my attic. The
Eavesdropper-T is a trapped dipole center-fed with 100' of 72 ohm
balanced feedline. The Eavesdropper-C is identical except it includes
a coax fitting and does not include a lead-in cable. Both models are
43' long (ideal for my attic space) and include static arrestors. For
the first thirty feet of my attic, there is electrical wiring to the
lights running 3'-4' from the peak of the roof, and for the last ten
feet within a foot of the peak. My questions are will this antenna
mounted at the very peak of the attic:

1. Be safe from lightning strikes?

2. Increase the chances of frying my radios even if electrocution is
not an
issue?

3. Suffer interference from the electrical wiring described above
whether the
lights are on or off?

4. Or interference from the utility lines outside the house which run
both parallel and perpendicular to the proposed antenna 15' to the
side
and 10' below?

5. Need to be grounded? (I believe I have read somewhere that a
balanced
dipole does not need to be grounded in order to deliver an
acceptable
low-noise signal. Is this wrong?)

What I have in mind, especially if I don't need to ground the antenna,
is moving my shack up to the attic and listening to DX on long winter
nights with a jug of corn liquor to keep me warm. Any advice would be
greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Grumpus




Slinky dipole (currently unused)
Radio Shack discone antenna (for scanner)
All in attic of my house