[TenTec] OT: Indoor Antenna

Tue Nov 30 19:31:53 PST 2010

Frank, you need permission to play basketball?  The flagpole on the wall 
will work. Make the flagstaff out of fiberglass,  gray PVC conduit, or 
even a varnished broomstick. Spiral wind wire on it and cover it with 
shrink sleeving. Run a counterpoise wire down to the ground and around 
the house foundation. Use a remote antenna tuner. Want a phased array? 
Set up two flagpoles, one with the US flag and one with the state flag. 
A Hanstick or Hustler mobile antenna will also work as a flagstaff. The 
MFJ will work but it will be less efficient because it is base loaded.

Once I put a slinky dipole in the attic as a backup antenna. It worked 
with a tuner on 80 meters, but it was 10-15 dB down from my outside 
G5RV. on the other hand, a full size 10 meter dipole in the attic was 
better than the G5RV because of the inherent feed line losses and 
mismatch of the G5RV on 10.

How about this approach:  Get the biggest, meanest SUV you can afford, 
like maybe a NATO-surplus Daimler-Benz UNIMOG radio truck. Park it in 
the driveway. Then put the biggest, meanest mobile antenna(s) on it and 
run the feedline into the house. See, no antennas on the house. HOA will 
be happy!

Seriously, I hope that you find a way.

                 73,

                 Bob WB2VUF

On 11/30/2010 11:04 AM, kf6e at mail.com wrote:
> Thanks.  If flagpoles were allowed, I'd have a flagpole antenna.  I spent about a half hour talking with my lawyer last night,
> and there are no loopholes in VA law that I could use.  The only flags allowed in our community are the type that attach
> to the exterior wall.  I have an MFJ apartment antenna that I might be able to disguise that way.
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>   I'm going to apply for permission to erect a basketball backstop in the back yard.  The screwdriver vertical will just fit inside a six-inch PVC pipe.
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> From: Clayton Brantley<clayton_n4ev at yahoo.com>
> To: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment<tentec at contesting.com>
> Sent: Mon, Nov 29, 2010 4:09 pm
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: Indoor Antenna
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> This month's QST has a real good article on a flagpole antenna.
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> Another article a few years back shows how to put a Hustler 5BTV inside
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> PVC water pipe.
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> Might want to look at those.  Good luck with the snoops!  Hi.
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> Might run a bluff citing Dept of Homeland Security, etc.
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> 73's Clayton N4EV
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> From: "Rsoifer at aol.com"<Rsoifer at aol.com>
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> Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 11:09:35 AM
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> Subject: Re: [TenTec] OT: Indoor Antenna
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> Another possible alternative, depending on your state law, is a flagpole
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> vertical.  Here in Arizona, state law allows  homeowners to display the
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> American flag, military service, POW/MIA, the  state and Arizona Indian nation
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> flags. HOAs may not prohibit flagpoles, but  may adopt "reasonable rules and
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> regulations regarding the placement and manner  of display" of flags,
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> including rules regulating the location and size of  flagpoles (ARS 33-1808).
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> 73 Ray W2RS
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> In a message dated 11/29/2010 3:17:14 P.M. GMT Standard Time, kf6e at mail.com
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> Jim,
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> Sounds like good advice.
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> I laid out some  ground radials in the back yard and installed a mount for
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> my screwdriver  vertical.  I put that up after dark some evenings, and can
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> work 80 and  160.  Interestingly, the attic dipoles do better on send and
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> receive for  40 through 10.  The screwdriver vertical does pretty well on 80,
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> and  reasonably well on 6 and 2.
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> I have been considering an S9-type  vertical, which, being longer, should
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> be more efficient than the  screwdriver.  I'm fairly sure I'd never get away
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> with a beam,  though.  My neighbors complain about just about anything, and
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> there is  even a committee of the HOA that goes around the entire
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> development every week  looking for discrepancies.
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> Thanks for the  encouragement.
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> 73,
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> Frank
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> -----Original  Message-----
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> From: Jliving39 at aol.com
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> To: tentec at contesting.com
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> Sent:  Mon, Nov 29, 2010 10:00 am
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> Subject: [TenTec] OT: Indoor  Antenna
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> Frank,
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> Suggest that you get into  the Stealth Mode using  the Redneck
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> Philosophy of Not Asking  Permission, but Begging Forgiveness if  Caught.
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> I am
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> sure
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> you could rig up some kind of outside antenna.  I  am in a  restricted area
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> and have a 40meter dipole, a 20, 17, 10 meter  fan  dipole, and a six meter
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> beam outside.  Keep them low  and the associations  won't bother you.
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> However,
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> do not ask  if it is ok.  Simply do  it.
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> jim,  K4CFA
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