Depending upon the construction of your home/apartment, try loading 
up the gutter and/or downspout.  If you have a ridge vent, that works 
pretty well too.  You'll need a good SWR meter and may have to "play" 
with your setup a bit to get the SWR acceptable.  Be sure to start 
off at low power, particularly if you are using solid state 
finals.  I run my old Heathkit SB-102 into almost anything.  The 
6146B finals are getting a little expensive, so I try to be kind to 
them, but the rig just keeps going and going and going - sort of like 
an HP 3000...

John - Dabaya Bee Fore Pee Bee Eye

At 2008-05-23 05:50 PM, Johnson, Tracy wrote:
>The original question raised some other possibilities on another list:
>
>Anonymous1 wrote:
>
> > I went down to the local hardwire store and bought the thinnest wire I
>could
> > find.
>
>I've had good results with "invisible" wire antennas.  The kind of fine
>wire used to wind coils, guitar pickups, etc. is so invisible in the air
>that even the birds can't see it.  Transmitting is obviously limited to
>QRP, and the weather eats through it pretty fast.  Then you put up more.
>
>
>Anonymous2 wrote:
>
> >There's his antenna.  Use the pipe.  Insulate it from the vertical
> >mount.
>
>Somewhere around the net there are directions for a "broomstick antenna"
>that isn't too far away from this idea.  It has a coil of wire wound on
>it.
>
>
>Anonymous3 wrote:
>
> >We lived in a house with an abandoned railroad line behind the house.
> >I was so tempted to hook up to one of the rails, but never did.
>
>I wonder what abandoned tracks would work like.  Active ones use the
>rails for signalling circuits or ground return of electric traction, and
>the effects on a DC grounded radio might be rather dramatic.
>
>
>
>Tracy Johnson
>Measurement Specialties Inc.
>BT
>
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