Installing a Ham Radio Antenna

Cham

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Maybe an "electric fence" around your yard would radiate well? Just use your ham transciever to energize the fence...

Sometimes you have to be creative.

 

harshness

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• Aug 28, 2019

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Cham said:

Maybe an "electric fence" around your yard would radiate well? Just use your ham transciever to energize the fence...

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Have you ever seen an antenna that looked like a fence?

 

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• Aug 28, 2019

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Yes, a Beverage antenna is a low to the ground, very long wire receive antenna that is directional and commonly set up on pickets like a fence.

harshness said:

Have you ever seen an antenna that looked like a fence?

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• Aug 28, 2019

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harshness said:

Have you ever seen an antenna that looked like a fence?

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Yes, also lots of guys use loop antennas.

 

Cham

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Yes.
You likely have too, just didn't realize it was an antenna.

 

harshness

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KE4EST said:

Yes, also lots of guys use loop antennas.

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I'm thinking more of the kind of fence that you might see in a manufactured home park where the lot size isn't conducive to a Beverage "installation" (half-wave and up by multiples).

 

jorgek

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• Aug 29, 2019

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I once stapled a 75 ft long copper wire to the top of a wooden fence fed into an L match. Worked great for a few years. No one ever suspected.

 

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