[Cliffdwellers] Help on HF antenna for apartment

[Walter Cang]

No balcony :( =20

I think he did try to load the window frame and says it barely worked. =20

Walter VA3WYC


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Farrar [mailto:mfarrar@sympatico.ca]
> Sent: April 23, 2004 4:19 PM
> To: Walter Cang
> Subject: Re: [Cliffdwellers] Help on HF antenna for apartment
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> The aluminium window frames will, and probably are, the=20
> problem. You have to
> get away from them.  Is there a balcony that could be used? =20
> Have you tried
> loading the window frame as an antenna?
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> Mike   VE3WMF
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> Hi there!
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> I'm helping a friend set up his first HF station.  He lives=20
> in the 7th floor
> of a high rise condo.  His radio room has glass sliding=20
> windows.  He has
> tested an MFJ 1622 apartment antenna
> http://www.mfjenterprises.com/products.php?prodid=3DMFJ-1622
> It was clamped on to the outside window but the results were=20
> disappointing,
> not to mention the fact that rules in his condo considered it illegal.
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> Has anyone heard of commercial or home brew HF antenna=20
> designs that can be
> installed around the inside of a glass window?  I noticed=20
> they stretch from
> slightly above the floor to the ceiling.  It has an aluminium=20
> frame though.
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> Thanks for your response.
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> 73 de VA3WYC Walter
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