I have been following this thread and thought I would add my personal
experience. My wife and I moved into a new manufactured home in a
retirement home in Bradenton, FL in Sept. 2018. I had no clue as how or if
I was ever going to get on the air again. My Grandpa use to tell me that
nothing beats a try but a failure. So what if I would put a little RF into
the rain 40 ft long rain gutter on the south side of the house. In mid Nov
I connected my feedline to the down spout . I feed it with a Balun designs
1171 ATU current Balun. The K3 with the KAT3 automatic tuner matched to a
1.3/1 or less on all bands 160 through 6 meters. I have made qso's on all
the bands using SSB, CW, RTTY and FT8 resulting in 1300+ Q's this past
year.logging 130 countries on 5 continents and 28 zones. Best DX was TO19A
on Reunion at 9727 miles. I have casually played in several contests,
including CQ 160 with 50 Q and RTTY RU with 100 plus.
Don't ask me how this antenna works or why, but this experiment as brought
me some of the greatest satisfaction of my 65 year ham career and I did it
myself and it did not cost me anything. Everything was left over from many
projects of the past.
73,
Paul, W4PFM
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