Steve,
I had the same problem in a second story shack at one time. The
approach that worked for me was to cut a quarter wave radial for each
band, attach one end directly to the rig ground, and then position them
around the baseboard of the room. No tuning or fiddling around and, best
of all, it worked.
73, Troy, W6HV
Steve Ellington N4LQ wrote:
> I've got this blind ham friend who lives in a second story apartment.
> I ran
> 50ft of wire out to a tree from his TenTec tuner and connected the rig
> to a
> water pipe ground. He gets RF bites on most bands for obvious reasons.
>
> I see TenTec sells a counterpoist tuner. Has anyone dealt with this
> problem
> and tried a gadget like this? Here's the link. Look it over and tell
> me what
> you think. We can't put up a decent antenna due to restrictions.
>
> http://www.tentec.com/Amateur.htm
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