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

[David F. Reed]

Thom,

many people that are very space constrained find a magnetic loop antenna 
to work fairly well; there are some associated hassles, like very narrow 
bandwidth, but they can be tuned, and are fairly low noise (not very 
susceptible to noise); someone may have some links to sites describing 
them or offering them; I am away from my main source of that info.

Good luck & 73 de W5SV, Dave

Thom R LaCosta wrote:

> 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