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From: jak@ky2d-2.UUCP (Jim kutsch)
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Dormitory antenna
Message-ID: <143@ky2d-2.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 19:17:11 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 11 19:17:11 1986
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Years ago when I was in a college dorm, my two roommates (both hams too)
and  I loaded the dorm's rain gutters and downspouts as our antenna.  We
placed a small wood block under each downspout to insulate it  from  the
metal (ground) pipe underneath.  Then, we ran a very small enameled wire
(#28 or so) through a hole in the screen out and  under  a  sheet  metal
screw  in the nearby downspout.  Using an antenna tuner and an old HW100
we worked most of W. Va. with a signal as good as most mobile  stations.
Admittedly,  most  of  the  junctions  operated as diodes and perhaps we
generated TVI but no TVs were allowed in the  dorm  and  there  were  no
houses nearby.

73, Jim ky2d.

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