It's certainly worth considering! Antenna might get a bit tricky here
in an apartment complex; have to check and see...
It's certainly worth considering! Antenna might get a bit tricky here
in an apartment complex; have to check and see...
There is an excellent book called "Small Antennas for Small Spaces" published by the ARRL you should get. You'd probably solve your
problem.
A buddy of mine just loads up the gutters on his four-story
apartment building at night. Seriously. He has a ground rod
right next to the bottom spout and he hooks up a modified RG-8X cable...works 10-160 meters with an antenna matcher. :D
I personally have loaded a small bridge on a country road before
with 100W of power and worked Australia with it. :P
Thoughts?
Also sneaky and clever, but strange that the bridge would not be at
ground potential. How'd you get around that?
Also sneaky and clever, but strange that the bridge would not be at
ground potential. How'd you get around that?
I don't know how it worked, honestly, just that it did. I used my big MFJ-959 matcher and I was able to get it to load up. It's like how I
used to load my parents' chain link fence at night for an antenna for
a while...
sounds like concrete bases insulate fairly well... at least if the
metal is completely encased in concrete... can't tell unless you get
it all up out of the ground and look at the bottom to see if there's
any metal from the "antenna" exposed...
next to the bottom spout and he hooks up a
modified RG-8X cable...works 10-160 meters with an antenna matcher.:D
I'm very happy to see somebody use the correct term ie. antenna
matcher instead of the usual antenna tuner because it doesn't tune the antenna.
I had an elmer of mine teach me that. It's just a compromise.
Good elmer! Impedance matcher would be the correct expression.
Good elmer! Impedance matcher would be the correct expression.
Good elmer! Impedance matcher would be the correct expression.
Yeah, but who uses the right names? :D
Good elmer! Impedance matcher would be the correct expression.
call from his XYL. He apologized, saying "I had impedance on my signal!!"...we roared with laughter. He did get his Technician
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