I have found myself living in Southern California for the next 6 months. Worse yet, in a 850 sq foot apartment. While this is not ALL bad, it does create some real issues. That said... I'm contemplat
Hi Dave, The first thing I would try is a heavy wire attached to the ground pin on your outlet. (Get a plug at the hardware store and put a heavy wire to the green pin and no other wires attached to
Author: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson" <geraldj@storm.weather.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 13:48:43 -0500
I did something like that in 1963. I had a little tuner and so I wasn't too picky about the load Z. I couldn't reach the down spout, but I put a copper hook on a short pole and reached up from the sh
Counterpoise, absolutely, Needs to be the wave length, also can get a artificual ground, use it with the counter poise. ( TT I think made one ) gutter, maybee but 'low' power, like 10 watts. Joints a
I just found something by MFJ called a MFJ-934 which is a tuner with a built in artificial ground... I think I may give this a shot. I'm reading through the manual now, and it appears that I can use
Dave, Ten Tec has a nice Counterpoise Tuner kit. Very simple to build, has a tuned circuit of a switched set of caps in series with a toroid coil having a "wiper" to tap off various amounts of induct
MFJ and Ten Tec both make Counterpoise/Ground tuners which work very well with a random length counterpoise, or in series tuning the wire to the house ground (which unfortunately may introduce noise)
try counterpoise from TT or artificial ground from MFJ DO NOT use the third wire ground of electrical outlet. Ron wb1hga _______________________________________________ TenTec mailing list TenTec@con
A balanced antenna would be better. Buy 2 slinky toys and make a dipole. The steel coils will take solder, if you use a little paste flux. When stretched out, the resonant frequency is about 7.5 MHz.
I ran virtually the same setup (rain gutter from 2nd floor). I attached a wire just as you mentioned...with a sheet metal screw. As noted, stray RF was everywhere *until* I attached 1 1/4 wave ground
Well gang, here's what I came up with... I'm going with this solution, with counterpoise wires. http://www.sgcworld.com/raingutterinstall.html _______________________________________________ TenTec m