500 hz or narrower cw filter really takes away many noises compare to wider setting of ssb voice.
Transmitting gutter antenna.
Economics and efficiency are the main objectives.
Rain gutters are a compromise at best.
I have a couple of questions for anyone with expertise or experience in using a rain gutter as an antenna.
Well not to put the nice radial system i had recently planted to waste i.
So i just ran an appropriate length of 18 awg speaker wire inside the plastic downspout and horizontal section sealing the ends with waterproof silicone caulk and attached the antenna segment to the main wire of some rg 8 coax while i connected the.
Check out the element uni directional long range antenna.
The antenna from her dining room window my typical luck.
Aluminum and brand new so they probably made contact.
A ham friend of mine recently asked me for the details of how i use my rain gutter and downspout as an antenna.
And weaker signal from such set up can be heard better in cw.
Unlike gregg s gutter antenna the spout and long horizontal section were made from plastic.
Using the terms rain gutter and efficiency are a contridiction.
Rain gutter antenna with sg 230.
Most of the original article is still relevant but i have.
Just refuses to work.
This gutter antenna is connected via an upper roof level downspout where no personal contact is possible.
Attached the feed line to a downspout and coax shield to grounding.
I noticed the rain gutters and downspouts of my house.
By jack ciaccia wmøg.
However i recommend cw for such installations.
Having limited space for wire antennas elected to use one of the house rain gutters for low hf 40 80 160 the gutter is 67 long continuous aluminum.
I originally did a write up on it in 1994.
If the transmitters are positioned more than 20 apart it is best to use a multi directional antenna.
The losses are dissipated through heat or to ground.
This all aluminum gutter is fed with coax with an unterminated shield at this end shield connected to radio ground at the other to reduce nearby computer hash from inside the house.
Started to think about some alternative stealthy antenna designs.
Also less interference is created to neighbour s tv etc from cw than ssb.
41 countries in 5 hours with 100 watts into a rain gutter.
I did use rain gutter as antenna and water pipe as ground it worked great from 160 mtr to 10 mtr.
Check the black markers on the map and if all of your desired stations are transmitting from the same area or within 20 of each other you can use a uni directional antenna.
I had great time.
Furthermore antenna tuners placed at the transmitter allow substantial losses in feed lines to be corrected in order to fool a transmitter into working correctly.
