Rain Gutter Antenna Mount

It is the rain gutter along the front of a house.

Rain gutter antenna mount.

Rain gutters are notorious for having poor electrical contacts at joints that act as diodes and cause severe tvi merely because an antenna is near them. I had great time. Including the feed wire into the shack the total length is in the neighborhood of 42 feet. Also less interference is created to neighbour s tv etc from cw than ssb.

I built variations of this antenna when i lived in several rental homes on hawaii island shortly after getting my novice class amateur radio license back in 1977. Second article on the rain gutter antenna. When installing gutters making sure you have all the right parts is key. I did use rain gutter as antenna and water pipe as ground it worked great from 160 mtr to 10 mtr.

Sirio performer 2000 pl 10m cb mobile antenna with gutter mount kit 1 offer from 79 50 bingfu vehicle cb radio mobile radio antenna mirror mount bumper roof rack pole mount fixed bracket for car truck cb radio vhf uhf ham radio amateur radio mobile radio antenna so239 female connector. The smartuner should be mounted as close to the feed point of the rain gutter antenna as possible. Gutter components a gutter system is made up of various parts and every piece is crucial to it working properly. Trying to drive the gutter itself as an antenna is really asking for trouble.

It is 80 feet long and off center fed as a windom with a single wire lead in to a tuner. The rain gutter antenna has a vertical component approximately 25 high and extends horizontally across the roof line for 35. The downspout has a vertical run of approximately 16 feet connecting the horizontal rain gutter which is about 16 feet long across the front of the house. 500 hz or narrower cw filter really takes away many noises compare to wider setting of ssb voice.

All are waterproofed and have the tuning range to match most rain gutters. And weaker signal from such set up can be heard better in cw. Lowe s is here to supply you with all the tools and supplies you need to ensure your rain gutters do what they re supposed to do once they re up. A couple of years ago i had written an article on the use of my rain gutter on my home as my hf antenna.

Below is a photo of a simple effective and entirely covert hf antenna. The best smartuners to use for a rain gutter antenna are the sg 230 sg 231 or the sg 237. However i recommend cw for such installations.