[Heathkit] Antenna book query

[Carl]

Try a thin horizontal wire at 6" above the roof line or just behind on the 
down slope. Then run it vertical sloping away from the house. Install 
whatever you can get for a ground system and feed with one of the automatic 
ATU's.

I did just that last year for a friend that was unable to climb or do any 
hard work. He does quite well with it 80-15M with 100W SSB and has just 
discovered digital modes. I used #22 tinned copper and its invisible to any 
nosy neighbors; the base and ATU is about 6' from the house in the back 
yard. The ground is an 8' rod for DC and a pair of 2' x 50' welded, 
galvanized and plastic coated 2 x 4" mesh at right angles for RF ground. 
Tacked down into the lawn and covered by a thin coat of loam by his 
sons...totally invisible in a week. The base and ATU is obscured by some 
added bushes and the coax was pushed into a shallow slit trench.

Carl
KM1H


------ Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Kaplan" <krkaplan at cox.net>
To: <heathkit at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2010 9:19 PM
Subject: [Heathkit] Antenna book query


> It looks like ARRL has about 39 publications in the antenna category
> (some are Smith charts). Anyone here have a suggestion about which one
> to get? I can't afford them all <g>. I live in a CCR neighborhood. If it
> can be seen from the street, I'm in trouble. I have a 2 story home so I
> can do a little bit of hiding. I'd like to try to get on 80, 40, 20. No
> beams, quads or long dipoles will fit. I suppose I could hid a bedspring
> somewhere <g>. Short of moving to more reasonable neighborhood, I've
> heard that some have had a bit of success with things they have been
> able to hid in an attic. I have one of those going to waste right now.
> Any of the ARRL books cover this kind of challenge? I'm not looking for
> EME and I'm not into contests - just fun contacts wherever I can make
> them with my SB-102.
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
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