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Copper Tape {Foil} for a "Stealth" Shorwave Listening (SWL) Antenna for the Out-Side and for In-Doors Try "Corry's" Slug & Snail Copper Tape Barrier for Garden use is sold in 15 Foot Rolls works well for a Stealth [Hidden] Antenna. This Tape is a Thin Copper Foil about and Inch Wide with Sticky Stuff on the back to attach it to a Surface. Lots of Surface Area for RF Signals to travel dwon to your Radio. Strip-Off and Inch of Insulation from the End of the Feed-in-Line. Take the End of the Copper Tape and wrap the Clean-Bright-Copper-Side tightly around the exposed Wire; and Solder them together. Apply to the Side of the House as a Vertical Antenna -or- Under-the-Eaves as a Horizontal Antenna. Two-for-a-Dipole : Use two of these 15 Foot Rolls to make a Dipole Antenna with a Twin-Lead or Coax Cable feed-in-line. OH ! - DID I SAY "STEALTH" ? Just Paint It and No One Know It's There ! ![]() NOTE - Also can be used In-Door with good results as a Corner-Fed-Dipole : Feed-in-Line going up a Corner of a Room with the two Arms of the Dipole at the near the Ceil-to-Wall Edge and Extending out from the Corner along two Adjacent Walls at a Right-Angle. Paint-It-and-Forget-It ! You could even Paint the Coax Cable or Twin-Lead feed-in-line. This Stealth In-the-Room Dipole Antenna "Looks" a lot better than a Slinky Dipole Antenna 'hanging' in plain view about the Room and performs about as well as any Wire Antenna that would happen to be in the same Room -All-Things-Considered- yes it is that simple - iane ~ RHF KISAP = Keeping Simple And Practical |
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