[TowerTalk] Mounting a Hustler 5BTV Near a house

[john at kk9a.com]

I have a 160m vertical 3 feet from the house at P40A http://www.qrz.com/p40a 
and it works OK.  Your vertical should work fine near the house and it may 
minimize any neighbor complaints so you can stay on the air.

GL,
John KK9A



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Subject: [TowerTalk] Mounting a Hustler 5BTV Near a house
From: Jay Radcliffe <jay.radcliffe at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:09:18 -0600
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Hello,

I have recently moved to a new home that has HOA/CC&R restrictions.
The good news is that I got permission to put the antenna up with very
little hassle. I am trying to be a good neighbor and was thinking
about mounting the antenna near the house rather then the back of my
yard.  I know this is not ideal, but the antenna would be virtually
unnoticeable from 80% of the viewing angles if mounted near the house.
Assume that the # of radials at are the same (20-30 between 15 and 70
feet long) and that the side of the house is 10-12 feet tall and
construction is all wood with asphalt shingles. The antenna would be
ground mounted 3' away from the house on a DX Engineering tilt base
and power would be 100W maximum.  I wanted to see if anyone has any
experience with how much degradation in TX/RX quality compared to
mounting it more in the clear.

Thanks in advance.

Jay n8os
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