"I could use a suggestion or two....I live in a very congested area....my house is 11 foot wide and 25 feet long...with a yard that is 10 feel deep....I have a 10 by 10 deck on the second floor.
I used to have an endfed wire that ran across the street to a phone pole...but new houses cut that off. There is a vent pipe on the back of the house that sticks up about 5 feet above the roof." You could try a fishpole vertical with groundplane type radials. Depending on the frequency and type of operation (DX versus Local) you do this should work well for 40 to 10. You could also try a sloper to your neighbors roof and maybe even manage to tune antenna on 80. A loop will do OK on the higher bands, but will basically be a NVIS (radiating straight up on 30 and 40). You could also try a 20M halfsquare for some gain or phased verticals. If it's not a sloping roof, you could get some 5 gallon buckets, with pvc or aluminum tubing set in concrete of even sand as additional supports for verticals. So...I could try a loop on my roof(10 x 25 x 10 x 25), go over my neighbor's roof(20 x 25 x 20 x 25) use the other neighbor's roof (30 x 25 x 30 x24), or try to attach a light weight mast to the vent pole and go "up". QRN is very bad here. Any and all hints would be appreciated. Is the QRN coming from a particular direstion? You may wish to consider a rotatable Rx Loop to null the source of the noise out. 73, Julius n2wn _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
