Hi Bill,
Easily Fixed.
1. Take a 2 inch wide vertical piece of wood about 4 feet long and hammer
it in the ground about 1 foot.
2. get a horizontal piece of wood about 4 inches wide and two feet long and
nail it to the top of the vertical piece at the top (forming the letter " T
").
3. On the horizontal piece paint the words FOR SALE. This will solve both
your rx and tx problems. If outside signage is not allowed, then you will
have to put a sign in the window but will be hard to see from ground level
73
Chet
P.S.
operating from 4U1UN even qrp will generate some serious pileups.
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Hein" <william.hein@mac.com>
To: <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 3:36 PM
Subject: [TowerTalk] apartment living
>I have a nice contest station in VT (Scott W4PA piloted the station to #1
>SO in the US a few years ago in the CQ WW contest) but I now spend most of
>my time living and working in NYC (apartment in Long Island City, Queens,
>to be precise).
>
> My apartment is on the 30th floor of a building on the east bank of the
> East River (directly across the river from the UN in Manhattan) with
> floor-to-ceiling windows to the south and west with wide-open views. I
> figured I could have some fun operating QRP from the apartment when not
> back in VT as the view is spectular and I thought, wrongly, good for some
> fun on the radio. Unfortunately short wave operation seems impossible
> with indoor antennas here, even when an antenna is pressed to the glass.
> All SW bands completely dead all the time. I can pick up VHF signals OK.
>
> Am I living in a big Farady Cage? Any suggestions? Hanging antennas out
> the window not a viable option. The building is a modern concrete and
> rebar box with a lot of glass. I am on the next-to-the-top floor.
>
> I am working on remoting my VT station but I have latency issues with the
> satellite Internet link on the VT side.
>
> 73,
> Bill NT1Y/2
>
> PS: Apologies if this is off-topic for TowerTalk. Maybe think of my
> apartment building as a big tower?
>
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