As I was staring at my unlandscaped backyard (our HOA gives us 6 months
from your move-in date to get it done...I'm late already)during the last
snow storm, I remembered a post on "foil antenna in the attic! Bingo!
How about foil radials...I could lay several rolls of foil out
underneath the black plastic and maybe help reduce ground losses. I've
been looking for cheap sources of wire for radials...I had a vertical
w/100+ radials before in another location GREAT antenna w/radials... and
a lousy antenna w/little to no radials!! Any suggestions...? I'm
setting up my SVL vertical on the second story deck which is 10' above
ground...I using the SLV only to support a 20'wire plus the 10' deck
above ground will give me a =~1/4 wave on 40m Also feeding it with
about 10' of 300 ohm twin lead thru PVC at the ground level ...I might
try to load it on 80m by the use of a wire top hat (3-4 wires strung off
the top of the SLV)...Maybe put a 80m loading coil at the deck
level....Comments??? BTW I chose the SLV because I can drop it down outa
sight when not in use. @#%$#! learning to live with No Outside Antennas
restrictions! All part of the QRP challenge I guess!!....Steve
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N0TU/hw8/49er/ExplorerII/38s/solar/backpack-mobile... QRP-L # 911
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