[Cliffdwellers] Re: attic antennas

Sun, 11 Jan 2004 10:38:26 -0600

How about the web-controlled TS-2000, accessible via the Internet:

Here is the Brad Wyatt QST article in PDF: http://www.w4mq.com/wyatt.pdf

Here is the main link: http://www.w4mq.com/

Also there is the EchoLink option: http://www.echolink.org/

I my apartment days, I worked out a deal with the building admin to gain
access to the roof for a low-profile wire dipole system, and insisted on a
top floor apartment, making the coax run easy & short. There are usually a
fair number of places to tie off a dipole system on a flat-roofed commercial
building. The key to making a deal like this is to go into it at the outset,
rather than to move in and then learn about all the restrictions! Once you
are on the air, you have to watch the power levels, lest you trigger smoke
alarms or couple into phone or intercom lines. In the for-what-it's worth
dept., lots of single-family detached housing isn't that much less
restricted, what with neighborhood covenants that limit antennas,
clotheslines, even open garage doors.  Nothing beats moving into a place you
have already done your homework on!

But most times it is not practical to move.  That's why the web radio listed
above is such a good deal. I've used it myself and found it quite
acceptable, and getting better with advances in technology. I like my own
station right here in MN, but sometimes it is good to be able to work the
remote and see what else I'm missing here in the Midwest!

73 - Pat
Patrick Tice
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Subject: [Cliffdwellers] Re: attic antennas

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 06:00:27 -0500 "W2WU" <[email protected]> writes:
> Steve;
> Try this challenge:
> Nine Story High-rise. QTH on 6th floor.
> No three wire AC outlets.
> No "external " antennas.
> Nothing may be "external " or face eviction!
> Tenants use Master Antenna, Cable or Rabbit Ears for T.V.
> Surrounded by other taller buildings.
> Within 200 Feet of High Voltage Power Lines.
> What is a W5GI Antenna? 73, Ron W2WU
> ----- Original Message -----
> Sent: 10 January, 2004 04:41
>
>
Ron,
Wow this place that you outlined Sounds like Newark Central Booking or
the Luxury Economy Block in Smolenks City .. hi hi
If you are paying  money for the place MOVE right now, as it is in
violation of one major national code that can think of and potentially
others.

Actually  I did operate out of a place that sounds similar in difficulty
but it did have fully compliant three wire AC outlets  and that was way
back in the  early 70's (OSU Dorms)  .
BTW I was on the 5th floor .
(1) Got a friend that had a "glass" drill bit and put in a nice clean
hole in the upper window glass put in a surplus bee hive insulator feed
(ART-13) through as the lower window was a swing in type.
(2) Got my hands on a couple of TV deflection  coils and  on wound the
thin but very strong enameled covered cooper wire (they have a nice
amount on them, at least the "old" type did).
(3) Got on the roof of the higher Dorm that was furthers from my window
and  using a sling shot a lead weighted  fly fishing line to  the bushes
in front of my dorm, I dropped a pull up line from my window  down to the
bushes and then hauled in the fly line.
(4) attached the copper wire that I had on a pay out roller to the fly
line and went back to the other dorm roof pulling in the fly line, made
some  small "insulators" using scrap lexan that I attached to the copper
and then a short run of fly to the  roof  hand rail .

I used a long wire tuner from a ART-13, and when I operated I dropped a
counterpoise wire right down the side of the outside wall using the
second   lexan insulator and a lead weight, pulling it up when I was off
the Air...

Worked like gang busters even on 75, lasted all of 3 years that I was in
the dorm, the housing authority did ask me why I always wanted the same
room all the time.
I did have to replace the wire one spring after a severe wind storm and I
un-hooked for the summers.
I was using a Tempo "rice box"  with a pair of sweeps CW and SSB .
As far as the W5GI Antenna, I am sure you can do a net search quite well
an all will be explained...

PS: It actually  works quite well....

All you have to do is LOOK and use your Eyes and then engage the BRAIN.

73's  Steve
   oo
  (__)         AB2ET
 "I bet two extra terrestrials"

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