Building An Attic Sw Antenna

I can t put up some big ugly antenna.

Building an attic sw antenna.

The principal radio being used on this antenna is a vintage hallicrafters with a high impedance balanced input. One quarter 1 4 wave is the minimum height above ground for effective performance. Finished late last night and had considerable noticeabl. Resources listed under shortwave antennas category belongs to antennas main collection and get reviewed and rated by amateur radio operators.

I installed my first outdoor shortwave antenna a k a. Another part of being a shortwave listener is designing and deploying the most clever antenna possible balancing visibility reliability and performance. Swl antenna back in the summer of 1971. Transforming the attic random wire antenna to a loop.

It s a good idea to have your antenna at least one half 1 2 wavelength of the antenna. It can potentially capture and contaminate the valid rf energy coming in from your attic shortwave antenna with undesirable electromagnetic and electrostatic interference. So i want to improve this attic antenna. Prior to our move i had been using and trying all kinds of indoor antennas since the early 60s.

The shortwave antenna explained. It can run out the window to a tree or stapled along under the eaves or even in the attic. Right now i have about 43 feet of uninsulated copper wire attached to pvc pipe as insulators drilled into attic studs. The second problem to solve.

Tf a compilation in the attic antennas 1. Dipole antennas often are the easiest to build and then turned into inverted v antennas by raising the center of the antennas up into the inverted v style. Here are some ideas about an in the attic antenna. Attic antennas to begin with building and installing an attic antenna that helps your reception you need to take stock of your attic s measurements particularly the length of the attic at it s longest distance that you have easy access and your radio s location.

We had moved from a city apartment to a house that had a big backyard. However i d like to occasionally run a tecsun portable on this antenna too. All it takes is a very fine wire. What a difference that made.