Help. I've been licensed since 1967, but I haven't been active for
about 20 years. I just bought a FT-101EE with a Cushcraft R4 vertical
antenna, however there are restrictions in my subdivision about
antennas. I'm thinking my best bet may be a long wire between my house
and a neighbor's tree with a tuner. I know this is an ago old battle,
any ideas for an inconspicuous HF antenna?

Help. I've been licensed since 1967, but I haven't been active for
about 20 years. I just bought a FT-101EE with a Cushcraft R4 vertical
antenna, however there are restrictions in my subdivision about
antennas. I'm thinking my best bet may be a long wire between my house
and a neighbor's tree with a tuner. I know this is an ago old battle,
any ideas for an inconspicuous HF antenna?



Sounds to me like you already have a workable idea in mind. Just use
small wire, keep it high enough to be out of reach.

Use a tuner, and keep your coax as short as possible (lossy with high
SWR) and you should be just fine.


Ed K7AAT

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Help. I've been licensed since 1967, but I haven't been active for
about 20 years. I just bought a FT-101EE with a Cushcraft R4 vertical
antenna, however there are restrictions in my subdivision about
antennas. I'm thinking my best bet may be a long wire between my house
and a neighbor's tree with a tuner. I know this is an ago old battle,
any ideas for an inconspicuous HF antenna?

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Move.

If you signed an agreement not to put up antennas, don't. Hams have a
bad enough rep with the neighbors as it is without violating
agreements they voluntarily agreed to.

Bill, W6WRT

wrote:
Help. I've been licensed since 1967, but I haven't been active for
about 20 years. I just bought a FT-101EE with a Cushcraft R4 vertical
antenna, however there are restrictions in my subdivision about
antennas. I'm thinking my best bet may be a long wire between my house
and a neighbor's tree with a tuner. I know this is an ago old battle,
any ideas for an inconspicuous HF antenna?

Are there restrictions against flagpoles?
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp

wrote:
Help. I've been licensed since 1967, but I haven't been active for
about 20 years. I just bought a FT-101EE with a Cushcraft R4 vertical
antenna, however there are restrictions in my subdivision about
antennas. I'm thinking my best bet may be a long wire between my house
and a neighbor's tree with a tuner. I know this is an ago old battle,
any ideas for an inconspicuous HF antenna?

Dont forget magnetic loops, they work well.

Pat

Bill -- check out Stealth Antenna projects at URL:
http://ac6v.com/antprojects.htm#STANT

Help. I've been licensed since 1967, but I haven't been active for
about 20 years. I just bought a FT-101EE with a Cushcraft R4 vertical
antenna, however there are restrictions in my subdivision about
antennas. I'm thinking my best bet may be a long wire between my house
and a neighbor's tree with a tuner. I know this is an ago old battle,
any ideas for an inconspicuous HF antenna?

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Bill -- check out Stealth Antenna projects at URL:
http://ac6v.com/antprojects.htm#STANT

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Do the CC&Rs allow "stealth" antennas? If so, go for it. If not,
don't.

Bill, W6WRT

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On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 06:35:03 -0700, "Caveat Lector"
wrote:

Bill -- check out Stealth Antenna projects at URL:
http://ac6v.com/antprojects.htm#STANT

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Do the CC&Rs allow "stealth" antennas? If so, go for it. If not,
don't.

Are you suggesting that the OP might actually want to comply with the
terms of the contract he made when he bought his house?

How strange!

--
Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

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Help. I've been licensed since 1967, but I haven't been active for
about 20 years. I just bought a FT-101EE with a Cushcraft R4 vertical
antenna, however there are restrictions in my subdivision about
antennas. I'm thinking my best bet may be a long wire between my house
and a neighbor's tree with a tuner. I know this is an ago old battle,
any ideas for an inconspicuous HF antenna?

If you bought the house knowing that antennas were not allowed, consider not
putting antennas up, at least outside. If you got sucked into the deal by
an unscrupulous builder who deliberately hid the antenna restrictions so
that he could sell a house (this happened to me a few years ago).......

OK, stealth antennas...obviously higher frequencies are easier to deal
with....
1. Flagpole converted to antenna
2. Horizontal loop around the outside of the house, in the attic, or around
a room.
3. Mag loop
4. If you park your car in the driveway, mobile antenna with coax reaching
to shack.
5. Ground mounted tilt up vertical
6. Tilt up vertical mounted on metal fence
6. DDRR
7. Small diameter wire end fed
8. Capacity hat vertical with loading coil near top, producing a short
vertical not easily visible
9. Attic dipole

Rayburn wrote:

Copper and aluminum Gutters work great!...If they only run across the front
and back of the house you can connect them with a small wire across the roof
to make for a nice long antenna!

For example I'm hooked to the bottom of a downspout near the ground on my 3
story home....about 28 feet up the guttering starts and runs 25 feet across
the back of the house......I connected a wire across the roof (60 feet long)
to the end of the front gutter thats the same height and length.

166 feet of antenna in the shape of an upside down U !

I buried a couple of ground radials next to a fence for 160...80....40 and
added a few short ones for 20 /15 and 10 about an inch deep in the
yard.....works great with a tuner and is fantastic on the L and AM bands for
reception as well!

Other than a small 4 inch length of coax behind the house next to the garage
door.....Its invisible!
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Help. I've been licensed since 1967, but I haven't been active for
about 20 years. I just bought a FT-101EE with a Cushcraft R4 vertical
antenna, however there are restrictions in my subdivision about
antennas. I'm thinking my best bet may be a long wire between my house
and a neighbor's tree with a tuner. I know this is an ago old battle,
any ideas for an inconspicuous HF antenna?






Congress just passed and the President signed a Federal Law that stops
the CC&R cops from prohibiting flying the American Flag on your
property. This means you can have a flag pole (antenna).

Dave WD9BDZ