[Cliffdwellers] re : stealth antennas

Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:09:12 -0600

I'm using Isotron antennas on 80, 40, 20, 15, and 10 meters.  Mounted 
indoors on tripods with 6 foot mast.  80 and 40 are back to back on one and 
mounted in my dining room.  20, 15, and 10 are mounted on another and are 
in my guest bathroom.  The MFJ 259B antenna analyzer makes it easy to set 
them up.  I live in a second floor condo with no external antennas allowed.
I have worked Europe, the Caribbean, and Alaska with them.  I live in 
Wisconsin.
I also have a three element 2 meter beam on my bedroom ceiling and a 
Cushcraft 2 meter/440 vertical in a closet.  The six meter halo will be 
going up on the hall ceiling.  Oh yeah there's a 10 meter dipole on the 
wall of my computer room and a disk-cone scanner antenna hanging from a 
swag lamp hook in the corner too.    I use an Evesdropper swl antenna 
around the living room ceiling and down the hall and I snuck up into the 
attic and put up a dipole
with 450 ohm feedline coming down through a hole I bored in a closet ceiling.
Plenty of room for more antennas but I have to keep the power down <= 100 
watts to avoid burning out someone's pacemaker.
I have used the burgler  alarm tape tacked up around the wall and painter 
to match and plenty of fine wire around the wall/ceiling joint with fairly 
good results.
I haven't  tried loading up the downspouts yet but it couldn't hurt.  8-)
73  Gary

At 03:44 PM 1/20/2002 -0800, allan egleston wrote:
>Has any one played with slinky antennas for stealth operations? WHat
>other small space antennas have the group used in the past and what are
>you using now? 73's De Allan.
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Gary Pewitt  N9ZSV
6120 W. Calumet Rd. Apt 204
Milwaukee, WI  53223
Sturgeon's Law " Ninety percent of everything is crap."