McRuss -- fantastic idea!!!! I saw the 17 foot telescoping stainless steel MFJ whip at the Orlando hamfest and that looks VERY interesting, and of course the venerable HAM STICKS are also quite long.

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Guys, I live in a really bad neighborhood. The balcony is a walkway open to every one. I can’t just instal whatever I want. I am going to buy a qrp tuner and see what I can do. Hopefully I can get out

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As I'm confined (not quarantined) to a condo unit, I thought a mag loop would be my answer. Maybe it was the one I bought and maybe it was defective but I could never get the SWRs down low enough to u

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The good news is I at 30 feet. My second choice is mag loop. Chris.

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Please check out magnetic loop antennas they are an excellent fit for use with our radios. You can use them indoors at ground level and they are directional so you can pull out a noise source.

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My landlord had a fit with us installing a 20 meter half wavelength dipole. There is no way a 160 meter dipole is going in here. We can laugh all we want but I’m sick with a virus, got an antenna inst

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🤣 Steve

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I guess he means the walkway is not long enough for a 160 meter antenna. Although I have a fairly large plot of land, I had to bend one end of the 160 part of my dipole. And, using what is either #14

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Christopher, I can't figure out what that wire is that you have your antenna tied to? I've never seen exposed wiring like that allowed on buildings. Is it cable TV coax or optic fiber or something lik

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Brian, that’s the spirit!

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I am using the upstairs and downstairs rain gutters as the two legs of my balun fed dipole and it works just fine! Like the man says, you use what you have! 73's Brian, W5RDG

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First of all I have to consider if idiots will grab it. Then I have to consider what the meth head owner wants, then 160 meters is longer than the walkway l had enough problems hanging a half wave 20m

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Thank You for the support. I will try for my first contact tonight as the sun starts setting. Chris

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My first 160M antenna was at a height of one inch (25.4mm)! It was the K3MT grasswire laid out in the back yard , no way to support it in the air at that time as a 250Ft dipole is 100Ft longer that pr

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The walkway isn't long enough for what?

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The walkway isn’t long enough. We did a good job of hiding the dipole and you won’t be able to see where the coax enters soon. I just want to get on 20 and maybe 40.

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I remember reading several accounts of people hooking a short wire to their bedsprings, and loading them with a tuner and making contacts - demonstrating amateur radio to a friend (accounts from the 5

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I used to have a dipole for 160 metres using thin wire supported throughout its length with fishing nylon line for years and you wouldn't be able to see it if you did not know it was there and you loo

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If I remember correctly you have a long feeder to the 20M dipole. You can use it as an end fed wire with a tuner on lower bands. Nothing to lose if you try it Lawrence

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Chris Sometimes you just have to ignore the nay-sayers and go with you have available. Arv _-_

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