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Rain gutter shortwave antenna.
I built variations of this antenna when i lived in several rental homes on hawaii island shortly after getting my novice class amateur radio license back in 1977.
I did use rain gutter as antenna and water pipe as ground it worked great from 160 mtr to 10 mtr.
However i recommend cw for such installations.
I have wanted to try this for a while but never got around to it until today.
The multiband long wire shortwave antenna a much better but more complicated antenna this antenna is end supported and designed to receive the major shortwave bands between 90 meters and 16 meters.
Unlike gregg s gutter antenna the spout and long horizontal section were made from plastic.
This gutter antenna is connected via an upper roof level downspout where no personal contact is possible.
This configuration has also.
Also less interference is created to neighbour s tv etc from cw than ssb.
I did a quick coax run to the outside gutter and grounded the braided side then connected the feedline to an old mfj tuner.
And weaker signal from such set up can be heard better in cw.
500 hz or narrower cw filter really takes away many noises compare to wider setting of ssb voice.
Second article on the rain gutter antenna.
Rain gutters are notorious for having poor electrical contacts at joints that act as diodes and cause severe tvi merely because an antenna is near them.
I was surprised that the gutter tuned up at a.
The results have been surprisingly good for shortwave listening using the crane ccradioswshortwave receiver.
Stealth gutter antenna for ham radio or shortwave.
Rain gutter hf antenna n6cc com above.
It uses only 4 wires and a unique antenna property called harmonics to get 8 bands using only 4 wires.
The rain gutter antenna has a vertical component approximately 25 high and extends horizontally across the roof line for 35.
A couple of years ago i had written an article on the use of my rain gutter on my home as my hf antenna.
Low profile antenna for shortwave listening the rain gutter and downspout on the back porch were tried as a random length antenna.
This all aluminum gutter is fed with coax with an unterminated shield at this end shield connected to radio ground at the other to reduce nearby computer hash from inside the house.
