[TenTec] OT: Indoor antenna

[Rob Atkinson]

I think it is a real shame that things have reached the point where we
hams have to put up these sneak antennas, as if we are doing something
illegal, or operating spy stations in enemy terretory.

The ham magazines just about every month run articles about hams who
are so happy with their hidden stealth antennas which I believe only
gives lawyers more evidence to use in court when they are going after
some poor ham who has dared to put up a decent antenna and his town is
going after him to get it down.

If you have a high profile dipole way up in the air and you are happy
and you wind up in court and the other side lays out all these
magazine articles about how this or that ham got WAS with his secret
night time telescoping antenna or hidden wire under his eaves, or
closet slinky and how he's just delighted working everything he can
hear, he's going to have a hard time convincing a non-technical judge
that those antennas are unsatisfactory and his high dipole, or quad,
or beam are really needed.

If a ham has to get by with a stealth antenna okay, but the magazines
(CQ, QST and Electric Radio as far as I know) ought not to portray
these antennas as highly satisfying.

my opinion and worth what you paid for it.

Rob
K5UJ