[UK-CONTEST] Portable Antenna - 5B4

[Richard Newstead]

Terry

It is hard to give any suggestions without some more details. However, 
the easiest might well be an inverted L using the rod out nearly 
horizontal with a wire dropped down off the end. I have used a fishing 
weight (sinker) as a weight but always wrap it in self amalgamating tape 
to make it less likely to break anything. Feed the aerial against 
radials in the apartment. This configuration is problematic in windy 
weather of course. I have had success with such an arrangement - 
including from a very tall hotel in central London. Other options may 
include a wire "cast" into a tree or sloping wires with fishing line 
insulators (drawing pins are very useful for fastening the ends). Use 
thin wire (enamelled copper is useful) if you need to keep it invisible 
- take enough to chuck it away if it gets too tangled.

I have had lots of fun with "covert" portable aerials from hotels in the 
past.

Leave the Buddipole in its box so you get the best price when you get 
rid of it on ebay.

73

Richard
G3CWI