this is driving me nuts, so now i cant sleep

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'IBC, I'm afraid I don't know your "living conditions" well enough to help. What kind of building is it, and how long is it? Judging from your sketch, it looks like quite a long building; can you tie off each end near the peaks of the gables, and run the antenna along the ridge?

73,

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its a cheep modular home. I currently have a 75m coax radiator dipole up on the roof now. but the noise is awful

I basically cant have anything over 20ft in height and none of it is to be showing in the front (I get by with my arrow jpole sticking a bit over the peak but for the most parts its not noticeable unless your actually looking for it)

I live with my sister and she is overly anal about anything radio... im still amazed I was finally able to sneak some radio stuff in here. (she was the reason I lost all my shit back in 2001 when I had to move back here from NW Ind.)

UGV - im not worried about ugly to much lol. going 7 band 1/2 wave 75,40,20,17,15,12,10 (since i dont really do cw or data i left 30 out and 160 is just way to long)
as for your drawing. if it wasnt for the p-lines right by the west trees id use one of them but im not going to chance it they are just to close to the lines to be tossing rope up to the top of them not worth the risk of life. if the middle tree was about 20ft farther back it would be perfect.

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Originally Posted by K7SGJ

I had a similar situation one time. What I ended up doing was making a dipole for 80, then using a staple gun, I fastened the elements to the edge of the fascia around the house in opposite directions. It ended up being an L in each direction if you can picture that. I used some 24AWG. You couldn't see it, and it worked reasonably well on most bands with an antenna tuner. It was all I had to work with and I was able to get on the air.

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yea right now I have a 75 dipole laying on the roof (made of rg-59 75ohm) 3.9mhz its 1.1 without tuner. but i just pick up way to much noise I can use the tuner to get 1.1 on 7.2mhz but I RFI the hell out of things in the house... (RFI issues will = me not able to have radio) if the damn house was oriented north-south. in this lot. id be in heaven (house just fits on the lot east-west by inches its so close to being over property lines.

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Originally Posted by W2IBC

its a cheep modular home. I currently have a 75m coax radiator dipole up on the roof now. but the noise is awful

I basically cant have anything over 20ft in height and none of it is to be showing in the front (I get by with my arrow jpole sticking a bit over the peak but for the most parts its not noticeable unless your actually looking for it)

I live with my sister and she is overly anal about anything radio... im still amazed I was finally able to sneak some radio stuff in here. (she was the reason I lost all my shit back in 2001 when I had to move back here from NW Ind.)

UGV - im not worried about ugly to much lol. going 7 band 1/2 wave 75,40,20,17,15,12,10 (since i dont really do cw or data i left 30 out and 160 is just way to long)
as for your drawing. if it wasnt for the p-lines right by the west trees id use one of them but im not going to chance it they are just to close to the lines to be tossing rope up to the top of them not worth the risk of life. if the middle tree was about 20ft farther back it would be perfect.

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Well, the power lines are 20 ft up or so, correct? Then ends of the legs will be lower. You can tie them off to pretty much anything.

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Originally Posted by KC2UGV

Well, the power lines are 20 ft up or so, correct? Then ends of the legs will be lower. You can tie them off to pretty much anything.

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if i end up dead im going to haunt you. lol

Do you have a good tuner?

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Originally Posted by W2IBC

if i end up dead im going to haunt you. lol

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What I'm saying is you wont need to toss rope over the power lines. Just run under it. If it looks like you're going to contact, then stop obviously.

Don't want to play with the triple wires in the air :)

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I basically cant have anything over 20ft in height and none of it is to be showing in the front (I get by with my arrow jpole sticking a bit over the peak but for the most parts its not noticeable unless your actually looking for it)

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Sounds like an HOA to me. Deed restrictions?

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I live with my sister and she is overly anal about anything radio....

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From what standpoint? Interference? The higher and further away the antenna, the less interference you'll have.

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Sounds like an HOA to me. Deed restrictions?



From what standpoint? Interference? The higher and further away the antenna, the less interference you'll have.

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she hates radio shit always has

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she hates radio shit always has

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Tell her to start hating her cell phone, then. :omg: :rofl:

Does she wear tin foil hats? :nuts:

If you have a tuner, you could always build a end fed longwire...... Easy to hide and you could snake it to where ever you needed it to go. Here is one to consider: ---> http://www.wa0itp.com/longwire.html