That one has a lot of promise! 

You could hide a vertical support right up the middle for an inverted vee.  If you raised the base of the “Ghost” you might get a 15’ elevation at the feed point.  Or even a Delta Loop with a wire across the bottom.  Wires would need to be thin (invisible) so maybe nr 28?

If we could do that well with a Halloween ghost just think of the possibilities with a Christmas tree, a big Easter Bunny or a May Pole for May-Day.  Solves the issue with only useful in October.  What’s that old saying “Age & Treachery will always beat Youth & Exuberance”?

From: Robert Averitt
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2023 6:49 PM
To: TVARC
Subject: [TVARC] Halloween Antenna?

We were at the new BJ’s store in Lady Lake yesterday and I spotted the following 15 foot blow-up Halloween ghost figure on one of the Halloween display shelves across from the cash registers. 

I began thinking hmmmmm… could this be ‘repurposed’ to hold a dual-band Halloween Stealth Antenna?

· Run a #16 wire about 11 ft. long vertically up the back with tape, install a copper ground rod and feed with a RG8X coax for use as a stealth vertical 15-meter antenna and …............

· Run a #16 wire dipole about 113-inch across the arms and center-feed with RG58 coax for a 6-meter dipole

Problems ….

· Could only be used in October

· Could NOT get the $100+ approval from my ‘domestic management’.  She thought it would be ‘tacky’ for some odd reason!

Oh well, another Rube Goldberg stealth antenna bites the dust!

73, Bob

WA3EWK