[SixClub] re; weak signal

Fri, 19 Mar 2004 18:14:21 -0500

Well I cant get hold of another antenna in the short term so the homebrew
dipole now comes into play. Walking round the house, it seems that the best
bet is to attach each end of the dipole to the eves of the house so that the
centre connector lies directly under the apex of the house. The dipole is
going to lay east/west but not a lot I can do about that. It should be about
25' high. Just before I do this, anyone got any comments?

Thanks

David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: [SixClub] re; weak signal

> Chris,
>
> Sorry, what I meant was that the colinear vertical is 2m/70cm, NOT 6m, so
> what I am trying to do is to get the 6m side of things operational!
>
> David
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Christopher Boone" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 4:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [SixClub] re; weak signal
>
>
> > Your vertical is great for local FM work...but will have a 20db LOSS
> > when working SSB stations on HORIZ during NON band openings...
> >
> > If you can put some turnstyle antenna (like the crossed squares in QST
> > and QEX a while back), you could hide it in the trees...paint it green
> > or brown to help hide it.....
> >
> > OR put a TV tower up, buy a Log Periodic antenna for 50Mhz to whatever
> > (UHF or 1.2GHz) and tell the homeowners group its a TV antenna ALLOWED
> > under FEDERAL law....make sure you have it hooked to the TV if they
> > check! :) Yes, they cannot prevent you from putting up an outside TV
> > antenna...and luckily 6mtr and TV2 antennas can look exactly the same..
> >
> > Chris
> > WB5ITT
> >
> > [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > > Also, can anyone tell me how high (ideally) I should site my homebrew
> > > dipole? I have antenna restrictions (i.e NONE ALLOWED) but have a
> colinear
> > > vertical up about 60' hidden in a tree. I cant get the dipole up that
> high
> > > but how high is high enough!
> > >
> > > Thanks,
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