Hard to believe that MFJ antenna is an efficient radiator. My balcony is
fairly large and I have a fan dipole on it, supported in the center and one
end with 8 ft long 3/4 EMT tubing in paint buckets filled with gravel, and
at the other end by the partition separating my balcony from my
I wonder which bands Dave G. plans to work?
Phil w7ox
On 5/25/14, 6:37 PM, David Patino wrote:
I have a MFJ 1622 and am on a 2nd floor
apartment. It actually works quite well clamped
to my balcony railing, as long as the
counterpoise is run out correctly. That's
actually the biggest problem
Apartment antenna ideas:
I knew of a guy in a second floor apartment that ran an end-fed long wire out
of his apartment deck railing. It was an almost invisible wire (from the
ground looking up into the sky) that ran out to a tree on the other side of the
parking lot. He would use the
I am moving to a condo on the 2nd floor of a brick and concrete building. The
condo rules do not allow anything to extend over the balcony railings.
However, they do allow flag pole to be clamped to the railing of the balcony.
I have considered an mfj 1622 antenna inside of a pvc pipe as my
I have a MFJ 1622 and am on a 2nd floor apartment. It actually works
quite well clamped to my balcony railing, as long as the counterpoise is
run out correctly. That's actually the biggest problem with my area.
It's a bit hard to hide the counterpoise since it has to go down to the
ground
How about a 33 foot flagpole? It's a start. You could always drop a
counterpoise to the ground floor. Some condo / apartment folks use
Tarheel or Hi-Q mobile antennas as well. I've heard that some work
well. Maybe you could put a small flag at the business end.
Sorry, I don't know anything
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