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Stealth Homebase Antenna
Topic Started: Friday, 26. June 2009, 14:37 (608 Views)
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26 Charlie Tango 104

Unfortunately my home QTH is a ground-floor flat and I'm surrounded by curtain-twitchers, so I've had to make a discreet antenna installation.

The antenna is a 4ft Thunderstick, with a Tri-Star radial at the base, on a quick release mount. Under the decking is a 2ft by 2ft metal plate with 6mm copper wires extending to the corners. The plate is fixed towards the rear of the decking with the longest wires running away from the building in order to encourage a radiation pattern away from the building.

SWR is 1:1.2 to 1:1.4 over the 80 channels - TX and RX is virtually nothing in the direction of the building, but in the other direction, range is up to 60 miles groundwave and I've had a copy of over 300miles via skip too.

Normally I just remove the antenna with the quick-release when I'm not on the radio, and I've also got a 7ft Thunderstick which just clips in place of the 4ft late at night and adds about an S-point to my TX and RX

Not ideal but it's working well

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Nice! looks very much like mine but i use a tank whip!

The radials are worth the money! i would highly recommend them!

neat setup there mate! ;)

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nice antenna gary
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Here's the 7ft Firestick clipped on the same mount - adds about two S-points to TX and RX over the 4ft.

They take a few seconds to swap over - SWR is excellent on both.

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I still think you shouild stick some cut-out plastic leaves on the 7ft firestick and swear to the neighbours that it's a sick rubber plant or something.

:ph43r: That'd be truly stealthy :ph43r:
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I like your idea before about growing a Sunflower up it :)

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