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Old May 31st 06, 09:36 PM posted to rec.radio.shortwave
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Default Copper Tape {Foil} for a "Stealth" Shorwave Listening (SWL) Antenna for the Out-Side and for In-Doors

For One and All,

Copper Tape {Foil} for a "Stealth" Shorwave Listening
(SWL) Antenna for the Out-Side and for In-Doors

Try "Corry's" Slug & Snail Copper Tape Barrier for
Garden use is sold in 15 Foot Rolls works well for a
Stealth [Hidden] Antenna. This Tape is a Thin Copper
Foil about and Inch Wide with Sticky Stuff on the back
to attach it to a Surface. Lots of Surface Area for
RF Signals to travel dwon to your Radio.

Strip-Off and Inch of Insulation from the End of the
Feed-in-Line. Take the End of the Copper Tape and
wrap the Clean-Bright-Copper-Side tightly around the
exposed Wire; and Solder them together.

Apply to the Side of the House as a Vertical Antenna
-or- Under-the-Eaves as a Horizontal Antenna.

Two-for-a-Dipole :
Use two of these 15 Foot Rolls to make a Dipole Antenna
with a Twin-Lead or Coax Cable feed-in-line.

OH ! - DID I SAY "STEALTH" ?
Just Paint It and No One Know It's There ! )

NOTE - Also can be used In-Door with good results
as a Corner-Fed-Dipole : Feed-in-Line going up a
Corner of a Room with the two Arms of the Dipole
at the near the Ceil-to-Wall Edge and Extending
out from the Corner along two Adjacent Walls at
a Right-Angle. Paint-It-and-Forget-It ! You could
even Paint the Coax Cable or Twin-Lead feed-in-line.
This Stealth In-the-Room Dipole Antenna "Looks" a
lot better than a Slinky Dipole Antenna 'hanging'
in plain view about the Room and performs about as
well as any Wire Antenna that would happen to be in
the same Room -All-Things-Considered-


yes it is that simple - iane ~ RHF
KISAP = Keeping Simple And Practical
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