Good morning Andy and all: I have had some luck using large steel cookie and or cupcake sheets under a good Mag Mount, preferably lying on the ground but with some luck on a dining room table with visual access to the direction in which I wanted to transmit.?
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On Apr 3, 2020, at 07:26, Andy_501 <andrew.webb.501.ve4per@...> wrote:
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I haven't read all msgs in this thread closely but if you live in
an apartment with a balcony with a metal railing you might
consider a mag? mount centered on the railing and connect the
railing electrically to the coax feedline braid.
I had a modified CB magmount that was resonant in 15 M band that
was mounted to metal railing that way and was able to get many
reliable qso's between Canada prairies and Central and South
America. Anything to the North for me was a bit attenuated by all
the steel and concrete but to the South it was wide open
unhindered radiation area.
On 2020-04-03 6:20 a.m., Bob Fischer,
Fischer Technical Services wrote:
For your "sheet of metal" to be large enough to be
effective, it would most likely be objectionable, too.
I second the recommendation someone else gave you.
Try using 1, 2, or 3 ground radial wires with the
hamstick.??? As many as possible, in different directions, as
horizontal as possible.? ?
Use as small diameter wire as you can get and run them
wherever you can hide them.
Good luck.
Bob
WB8BEL
From:
"Christopher Miller"
<djmalak2k6@...>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Friday, April 3, 2020 6:44:55 AM
Subject: Re: [BITX20] Hamstick Mag Mount
I know I have said this before but I will
again now without malice.
The manager of the property is behind me
working to build out a working Hf/vhf/uhf station. They let
me put a hole in the wall to pass coax through.
The owner doesn¡¯t want exposed antennas as the
normal idiot landlord would.
I got flack for putting my dipole up with
cable tv coax.
I would want to get ham sticks and mount them
on a base. I¡¯m guessing a large sheet of metal will work
instead of the car.
Chris
For
portable use I have used a clamp-on mount (also sold to
make a hamstick dipole) attached to a metal stake.
Sticking that into the ground made a usable antenna. In
cases where I didn't think I had a good gound I attached
some radials made with split zip cord and just laid them
on top of the ground, or if in an upper story of a motel
I would clamp to a balcony railing and droop the radials
over the edge or spead around on the floor. I made
contacts with this setup, but it was a bit cumbersome to
carry along, so lately I have been using a relatively
inexpensive QRP loop and it actually works a little
better, plus it disassembles into a small easily carried
package.
I still use the hamsticks with a mag mount when going
mobile in my wife's SUV
=Vic=
