[Elecraft] Compromise/Limited Space/Make My Day Antenna Advice

Thom R LaCosta lacosta at bcpl.net
Tue Aug 23 17:48:28 EDT 2005


I could use a suggestion or two....I live in a very congested area....my house 
is 11 foot wide and 25 feet long...with a yard that is 10 feel deep....I have a
10 by 10 deck on the second floor.

I used to have an endfed wire that ran across the street to a phone pole...but 
new houses cut that off.

There is a vent pipe on the back of the house that sticks up about 5 feet above 
the roof.

So...I could try a loop on my roof(10 x 25 x 10 x 25), go over my neighbor's 
roof(20 x 25 x 20 x 25) use the other neighbor's roof (30 x 25 x 30 x24), or
try to attach a light weight mast to the vent pole and go "up".

QRN is very bad here.  Any and all hints would be appreciated.

Rig is the K2 with the autotuner.

73,Thom-k3hrn
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