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From: ai2q@ky2d-2.UUCP (Alex)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: TS-430s and apartment antennas
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Date: Thu, 28-Nov-85 20:24:13 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 28 20:24:13 1985
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Milo:
We are also a cliff dweller, and although restricted in what we might
put up, the advantage of having the building height makes up for some
of the limitations. In the past I have very successfully used a Hustler
4BTV trap vertical but I modified the feedpoint with a large brass disk to
accommodate many, many #12 wire radials. As in your situation, this is 
somewhat unwieldy (don't want the super tripping over a spiderweb of wires!)
The use of a vertical antenna invites some TVI as the majaority of TV
feedlines are also vertical. I am presently using a simple end fed wire, well
insulated with glass and steatite at all points and fed against ground at
the point where it enters the shack. The ground is a steam pipe! I use heavy
2-inch wide braid to make the counterpoise connection.
It works quite nicely on all bands 80 through 10 with a simple L-tuner made 
from an old ARC-5 (remeber those?) roller coil and a xmtg varaible. the proof
of the proverbial pudding is that I often run my Argonaut at abt two or three watts output and am having a ball. this setup works especially well on amtor and
my neighbors have no tvi whatsoever! Good luck with whatever you finally
get going there. By the way, am thinking of extending my simple end fed and 
creating a full wave loop out of it. 
Very 73 de Alex, Freeport, Long Island >>AR>>