[HCARC] Attic antennas

Fri Feb 21 16:03:34 EST 2014

Dennis

Neither you nor Kerry have any idea how much I am on the air.  Anytime you 
care to volunteer for either the secretary or the Static or maybe 
Coordinating Field Day just speak up or maybe if you would prefer lets just 
start a peeing match on the Reflector.  In fact maybe come next meeting I 
will tender my resignation from all three positions.  In fact, maybe now is 
a better time.

Terry, Harvey, Bill, HCARC Club Board Members:

I hereby tender my resignation from all of the positions I hold in the Hill 
Country Amateur Radio Club.  Terry - I will be happy to deliver the 
materials I have concerning the Secretary position and all of the Field Day 
information I have received from Jeff Lavender at your convenience.  Have a 
Nice Day.

Gary J
N5BAA

Dennis - Great comment - Show Gary no mercy.  What a waste of a K3!  Gary is 
almost as active as K5XA.

Gale - The station I worked had a roof with composition shingles, I guess 
thats the better description.  He had taken the wires from his dipole and 
pushed them up under the bottom of the shingles.  Sounds really great to me.

Gary - Not only do I have the foil backed insulation board, I also have a 
meta l roof.  I don't think it would work, but I don't have to try!  My 
house in Albuquerque was a Territorial style house with stucco walls.  Under 
the stucco is chicken wire.  There was a lot of metal in that house.  The 
roof is set about a foot below the top of the walls.  the ends of my 
antennas were on the top of the side walls in one case and actually laying 
on the roof in the other.   The chicken wire didn't seem to be too bad and 
you couldn't see the wires from the ground.

Kerry

-----Original Message----- 
From: Dennis Robertson
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 11:12 AM
To: Gary J - N5BAA
Cc: <galeheise at windstream.net> ; SARA SANDSTROM ; <timberrr59 at yahoo.com> ; 
<thipskind at sudedenlink.net> ; H - Reflector
Subject: Re: [HCARC] Attic antennas

Might work if you ever get on the air, but I guess you are too busy doing 
the minutes and newsletter.

D

Sent from my iPhone

> On Feb 21, 2014, at 10:22 AM, "Gary J - N5BAA" <qltfnish at omniglobal.net> 
> wrote:
>
> My assumption, since Kerry indicated that it wouldn't work on his roof 
> with with foil backed insulation board, that on my metal roof it is 
> totally undoable.  Maybe I should erect a vertical and have it use the 
> roof as a large radial field.
>
> Gary J
> N5BAA
> HCARC Secretary 2013/14
> 2014 Field Day COORDINATOR
>
>
> "We are Coulomb of Borg. Resistance is futile. Voltage, on the other hand, 
> has potential."
>
> -----Original Message----- From: galeheise at windstream.net
> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 8:45 AM
> To: SARA SANDSTROM ; timberrr59 at yahoo.com ; thipskind at sudedenlink.net
> Cc: H - Reflector
> Subject: Re: [HCARC] Attic antennas
>
> Kerry-
>
> You mentioned wire lying on top of an asphalt roof.  I had entered "wire
> beam" in the past for a Google search and found a website where a fellow 
> had
> built a wire beam antenna on top of his roof.  As I recall, a transmission
> line followed the peak of the roof with wire elements extending
> perpendicular down both sides of the roof.  It was a pretty neat stealth
> antenna.  Unfortunately, I didn't save the website but I suspect it can be
> found with some effort.
>
> Gale
> KM4DR
>
> -----Original Message----- From: SARA SANDSTROM
> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 9:32 PM
> To: timberrr59 at yahoo.com ; thipskind at sudedenlink.net
> Cc: H - Reflector
> Subject: [HCARC] Attic antennas
>
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> There are at least a couple of you interested in attic antennas.  Whenever 
> I
> talk to someone using an attic antenna or other stealth antenna , I ask 
> them
> about it.  One person, Bill, WB4DBO, directed me to his page on qrz.com. 
> If
> you go to WB4 DBO and go down to the last 5 photographs, Bill has pictures
> of his Bazooka dipoles in his attic.  Bill uses a K3 with a built in auto
> tuner and says the built in tuner handles the SWR on his dipoles without 
> any
> problems.
>
> Another station I recently talked to had taken is dipole and pushed the
> wires under the bottom ends of the shingles on his roof.  In his case, the
> dipole is 'almost' outside.  If you have a pitched roof with asphalt
> shingles, it looks like a pretty neat idea and the antenna is pretty well
> hiden.  One thing you might be consider is the type of insulation used in
> your house.  From what I can see of mine, it looks like there is an
> insulation panel under the roof that has aluminum foil on the side facing
> down.  There is plywood on top of the insulation and a metal roof above
> that.  Needless to say, an attic antenna would not be practical for me!
>
> Kerry
>
>
>
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