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elektra35
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 7:14 pm: | 
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We cant have antennas in my neighborhood, but I still want to set my base station back up from before i moved. What kind of antenna options do I have? my whole house is wired with CB coax at the request to my dad  |
Buck
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 8:21 pm: |
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Hey electra....Nice to see some locals on here...I live just north of marion. My suggestion would be a a-99 or I2K in a flagpole or a dipole. give me a shout sometime....I stand by on 40lsb or 13lsb
Buck |
Rippedradio
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 8:46 pm: |
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elektra, i had the same problem, i used an antron 99 and put it up on my kids play set as his own flagpole it looks great and no one has said a thing! if you need some pics drop me an email! 73's chris KC0QMB
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Alsworld
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 9:34 pm: |
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Explain the situation completely. Do you have an attic, trees, etc.? Lots's of options here besides an external tower.
Alsworld |
de
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 9:55 pm: |
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Suggestion....
You have to have a tree on your lot somewhere.
Get one of those 5/8 wave 3 piece screw together fiberglass antennas. Pain the thing the color of the tree trunk, limbes.
Put it in a tree with lots and lots of leaves in the Summer (to hide it) and the color to conceil it as a tree branch (one of many) on the tree.
Bury the coax and paint the coax if necessary to conceil it against the tree trunk. |
Bullet
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 1:51 am: |
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id run a stacked set of lightning 8 element quads at 108 ft on rohn 45g tower and have a nice 2995dx driving a pair of 3-500z's driving a 3cx20,000a7 amplifier.
i mean since you moved to a antenna restricted neighbor hood and all, if you gona go agaist thier codes you might as well go all out and do it with some class!
or you could move to another location where you can run a radio. |
bruce
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 7:18 am: |
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no WONDER i heard you! |
mikefromms
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 8:14 am: |
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You could put an Astroplane on a small pole and stick it up in the clear and grow vines all around it. Claim it's a vine holder of some kind.
Mikefromms |
questionman
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 9:57 am: |
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Do you have a chain link fence?? If you do I can tell you how to use it as an antenna!!! |
bruce
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 9:58 am: |
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or a strange upside down 18in dish |
Okieoutlaw
| | Posted on Thursday, August 14, 2003 - 6:27 pm: |
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If you have an attic then I would recomend going to the Library and fining an issue of the "ARRL Handbook" They publish a new one every year and it has several ideas and formula's for making a long wire antenna that you could put in your attic or suspend in a tree and the neighbors would be none the wiser unless you bleed on their TV ! 73's |
Gunship
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 8:32 am: |
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I would suggest a 1/4 wave vert. in the attic, if you have one. |
Crafter
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 3:48 pm: |
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I've laid my antron horizontal in my attic before worked good too... |
Taz
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 5:14 pm: |
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how about a laser 500 in an attic? |
Lowpowerhal
| | Posted on Friday, August 15, 2003 - 8:39 pm: |
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The Best one iv seen is a outdoor clothesline pole , The kind thats Octagon shape, Around 5' dia. He dug a hole a about 5' deep and put 10' of 1.1/2 Inside dia pipe in the ground. The mast on the clothesline was replaced with 10'6" of 1.3/8 outside dia. tubing. sliped it inside the pipe in the ground, It looked normal in the daytime and the wife used it for her clothesline. But at night it was up at 15' more or less and transmitting on flat side. Also the outer wire was the dipole, Tuned at 10 or 11 meter band with a mfj tuner. 73's lowpowerhal |
