SUGGESTIONS? COMMENTS?

All are welcome, of course!

--Kirk, NT0Z

Whatever you can get to work - just do the best you can. I was in the same
situation in a condo,
although I was on the 3rd floor. I tried loading the gutters, but got very
poor performance. I ended
up with just a 30' run of 26ga enameled wire run from the bedroom window out
to the eaves under
the balcony, and that worked great. But I was running a Drake C-Line (this
was in the year 2000)
and had lots of power. I worked all over the US and some DX on 40 and 20,
with a Kenwood
TS-180 manual tuner. QRP would have been a very different story. I only
run CW, so didn't
have any experience with SSB. I'm sure I was lighting up something in the
building, but never got
complaints (of course, no one knew I had an antenna!) and only ran late at
night on 40 and in the
middle of the day (when folks typically aren't watching TV or even at home).

If you get a good sharp dip at resonance with your tuner, you will probably
not have a lot of
interference problems. But if the tuning is 'mushy' and very low Q, watch
out! You're probably
not getting out, and just swamping the house with RF. Be sure to employ a
good LP filter as well.

I wouldn't expect much QRP performance, especially at 100 MW!

Just give it a go and see what happens.

Dave WB7AWK