Insulated gutter clip antenna amateur

If you have any ideas for 2nd story apartment dwellers, they would be appreciated. That is, avoid water pipe, metal house siding, rain gutters, conduit. And second, should I couple the tuner to the gutter directly, or through a pair of parallel 0. I am on the second floor of a condo. At low power levels on the meter bands they are also RF safe to the building inhabitants. If the government takes over the internet it won't be half fast. Worked great, had a booming signal with 10 watts on SSB.

Hi Stu — Thanks for the note…Looks like you have done your homework on this type of antenna…I guess a lot of the answers would depend upon where your antenna tuner is in relation to the antenna feed point — and what kind of transmission line you use. Amplified RF also hurts worse, due to the added power applied to the antenna. What you could do is put up a flag pole. Right now, I currently have, a dipole with a 1 to 1 balun between the 2 legs, and each leg is 19 and 1 half feet long. I thought about doing any of 3 things:

Those were the days my friend Wonder if I can get my plastic gutters to load?? That 60 ohms will absorb RF power and maybe get hot — may be a problem too…Is the building stucco-lath constructed? It loaded up just fine on 40 meters and I had QSO with a friend of mine across town to test it out. Have fun with it!

Of all the things in this hobby antenna design and use is the most fun for me. If you had a 2 story house and could put the lights up higher then that would work better. I am using an SG autotuner in this installation, but the principles are the same for most of the common autotuners of similar type. It might not be great but better than nothing for sure. My interest for it sparked then. Only one way to find out Application of the multi-wire dipole principle to the autotuner installation provides a solution.