[Antennas] Quick Question. I hope.

[Chris Boone]

Indoor antennas are always a pain....especially for 6m....2 should be easy
to do BUT remember, an indoor antenna has a 12db loss compared to the same
antenna outside!! 12db is a 20:1 power level.....IF you can run a single
coax outside, try putting a 5/8wave antenna on a good ground plane (54in
radials)....that will work on both 2 and 6mtrs and the higher the
better...even a small RG58 run can be done through most windows
thresholds...
Likely you have some metal in the vicinity of the indoor antennas....or the
ground plane is not sufficient...

Chris
WB5ITT
(also running a 857D on 6 and 2 using a NMO150 on top of the company van ;)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: antennas-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [mailto:antennas-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Murray Hunt
> Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 7:06 PM
> To: antennas at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Antennas] Quick Question. I hope.
> 
> First sorry about the last e-mail (subject:..)
> 
> Second, I ham having some problems getting any of my antennas 
> to work inside my house.  I am living at my parents house for 
> just a bit longer till I finish my academy that I am going to 
> and my wife to be gets done with school out of town.  Anyways 
> I have set up FT857 in my room and was 
> hoping to work 2 meters if not also 6 meters.   Anyways I have a hand 
> full of antennas for both and I have tried them all.  Ground 
> planes and all the SWR is off the chart.  Can anyone think of 
> why this could be.  I go out side and everything works just 
> fine.  Any help would be great.  
> Murray-KB3LZV
>