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Copper gutter antenna.
Make sure your gutter and downspout are isolated from ground.
It is 80 feet long and off center fed as a windom with a single wire lead in to a tuner.
In fact the downspout has now become my main antenna.
Unlike gregg s gutter antenna the spout and long horizontal section were made from plastic.
Rain gutter antennas are a very old form of stealth antenna and can be very effective but there are some other things you must consider if you want to use your gutters.
During wet weather this type of antenna will usually perform very poorly.
Most of the original article is still relevant but i have.
Some words of caution are in order however if you plan to use your rainspout as an antenna.
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Make sure there is solid electrical continuity between the various sections of your downspout and gutter.
It is the rain gutter along the front of a house.
Below is a photo of a simple effective and entirely covert hf antenna.
Copper gutter model fercp6 1 52 1 52.
The wood the gutter is mounted to should be dry and of good quality.
That article found its way into several ham radio publications and newsletters.
Worked europe easily with no local rfi that i know of hi.
A ham friend of mine recently asked me for the details of how i use my rain gutter and downspout as an antenna.
I fed the gutter outside our window and laid a counterpoise on the apartment floor.
I originally did a write up on it in 1994.
K style copper ferrule for 6 in.
When i first moved to boston in the 80 s we were in the top floor of a brown stone with copper gutters.
I ve always fed gutter antennas from the bottom of a downspout using a coax pigtail one end with an so 239 uhf connector same as what s on the back of most ham cb radios center of the coax going to the gutter and braid going to a nearby grounding point of some kind either a ground rod worst case scenario radials better or groundrod.
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