Willard,
If you have the space in your attic, many of us have had great success with a
20 meter dipole in the attic. I used one for year before moving to the open
spaces with no home owners assn.
Stan, K4SBZ
Sent from my iPad
> On Nov 18, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Willard <commandpromptthat@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello:
>
> I want to thank all of you that replied with great suggestions and warm
> welcomes. Thank you.
>
> So over the weekend I attempted to use my rain gutters for my antenna, and
> did not get the success I was hoping to get. I am now shopping for an
> antenna setup. At this time, I think I have two good options. One, I have a
> tri-pod where I could mount on the roof, get a mast, rotater, and a thee
> element beam, and maybe add a vertical on top. Also, I have about 6 10'
> metal fence posts that I could use as a mast, maybe setup a G5RV. All of
> this may have to wait until sigh, December.
>
>
> In the meantime, I plan to look over all the good links you all sent, I am
> determined to get on the air.
>
> Again, thanks for your support and information!
>
> Wayne
> KD0VPR
>
>
>
> On Friday, November 15, 2013 8:54 PM, Michael Rapp <mdrapp@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Wayne!
>
> Welcome to Amateur Radio and RTTY. I've only been in the hobby for...let
> me count...sixteen months, but after spending much of that time trying out
> all that amateur radio has to offer (and I still haven't explored it all!),
> RTTY came to be my favorite mode.
>
> I also have an FT-950 and really enjoy using it on RTTY. If you have any
> questions on getting it set up and/or interfaced to your computer, I would
> be happy to help.
>
> Like yourself I've comfortable with the three main operating systems out
> there. As historically ham radio and especially contesting applications
> have been PC-centric, I've got a WinXP box for my ham shack. (Which will
> probably get a Win7 upgrade over the winter holidays.)
>
> The Northern California Contest Club has a nice "RTTY for Newbies" webinar
> that I found useful on their webinar page:
> http://www.nccc.cc/webinars.html They also have some tutorials on the
> N1MM logger for contesting.
>
> And antennas will grab you. It has almost become a hobby within a hobby
> for me and I live on a small lot with antenna restrictions! To me, this
> makes it even more fun (to look on the bright side) as I've developed a
> fascination with trying to figure out what is really going on with these
> things so I can maximize the antennas I have.....which at the moment are
> three runs of speaker wire hanging from a tree (10, 15/40, and 20 meters).
> I worked Iceland in the last RTTY contest with that. :)
>
> 73,
> --
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