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From: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Dormitory antenna
Message-ID: <1547@gitpyr.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 15-Mar-86 14:01:36 EST
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.1547
Posted: Sat Mar 15 14:01:36 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Mar-86 10:44:27 EST
References: <2905@sunybcs.UUCP> <143@ky2d-2.UUCP>
Reply-To: kludge@gitpyr.UUCP (Scott Dorsey)
Organization: Georgia College Of Universal Knowledge
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Keywords: antennae, gutters, beds, college

In article <143@ky2d-2.UUCP> jak@ky2d-2.UUCP (Jim kutsch) writes:
>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.

   Here at Tech, many of the dorms have bunk beds with metal frames.  It
turns out that if you remove the bottom bunk and place it on the floor
or on top of the wardrobes, that the frame with the top bunk remains
pretty stable and resonates pretty close to 6M.  With a little tuning,
it works pretty well, and you can put a desk underneath it.  At one point,
I had almost 100W going through the bed (not while my roommate was sleeping,
of course).

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ICS Programming Lab (Where old terminals go to die), Rich 110,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332
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