Hf Antenna Rain Gutter

After years of trying to come up with a good way to get on the hf bands from my little townhouse without attracting a lot of attention from my neighbors i started experimenting with using my aluminum rain gutter and downspout for an antenna.

Hf antenna rain gutter.

100 watts into a rain gutter. The results have been surprisingly good. The smartuner should be mounted as close to the feed point of the rain gutter antenna as possible. Compromise disguise antennas are no strangers to hams especially on hf.

Below is a photo of a simple effective and entirely covert hf antenna. It is 80 feet long and off center fed as a windom with a single wire lead in to a tuner. From my new super stealthy hf radio setup. A couple of years ago i had written an article on the use of my rain gutter on my home as my hf antenna.

I built variations of this antenna when i lived in several rental homes on hawaii island shortly after getting my novice class amateur radio license back in 1977. Trying to drive the gutter itself as an antenna is really asking for trouble. All are waterproofed and have the tuning range to match most rain gutters. A simple technical look at an hf horizontal loop of.

The classic rain gutter loop antenna is it any good. Second article on the rain gutter antenna. Wb3gck after years of trying to come up with a good way to get on the hf bands from my little townhouse without attracting a lot of attention from my neighbors i started experimenting with using my aluminum rain gutter and downspout for an antenna. Some novel loop disguise techniques.

By jack ciaccia wmøg. So here s an updated description of my downspout antenna. Rain gutters are notorious for having poor electrical contacts at joints that act as diodes and cause severe tvi merely because an antenna is near them. My hf rig is an icom 745 and a dentron transmatch running 100w but my antenna system is a little unusual though.

The best smartuners to use for a rain gutter antenna are the sg 230 sg 231 or the sg 237. It is the rain gutter along the front of a house. Wire strung around your house at rain gutter height plus. But which ones are worth the effort.

The rain gutter antenna has a vertical component approximately 25 high and extends horizontally across the roof line for 35. I decided i would give the arrl international cw dx contest a try.