Building An Attic Sw Antenna

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Building an attic sw antenna.

It can run out the window to a tree or stapled along under the eaves or even in the attic. We had moved from a city apartment to a house that had a big backyard. I installed my first outdoor shortwave antenna a k a. Here are some ideas about an in the attic antenna.

Right now i have about 43 feet of uninsulated copper wire attached to pvc pipe as insulators drilled into attic studs. All it takes is a very fine wire. I can t put up some big ugly antenna. Resources listed under shortwave antennas category belongs to antennas main collection and get reviewed and rated by amateur radio operators.

One quarter 1 4 wave is the minimum height above ground for effective performance. Swl antenna back in the summer of 1971. Shortwave antenna plans and links category is a curation of 54 web resources on rhombic antenna for shortwave radio broadcasting echelon log beverages hula loop antenna. This is a simple homemade attic receive not transmit antenna for am and sw radio receiver channels.

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. The shortwave antenna explained. The principal radio being used on this antenna is a vintage hallicrafters with a high impedance balanced input. Coax shield picking up interference the coax shield when not terminated at each end acts as an independent antenna.

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. What a difference that made. Transforming the attic random wire antenna to a loop. 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. However i d like to occasionally run a tecsun portable on this antenna too. It s a good idea to have your antenna at least one half 1 2 wavelength of the antenna. Tf a compilation in the attic antennas 1.