Well,  I have my J pole in the attic, it isn't as good as being outside,
but I'll have to say, I've had 1 up there since I've been a ham for VHF/UHF,
and it's good enough, it's definitely a lot better then inside the room,  up
there at least in my attic, it's like a crawl space really so there's no
insulation and I mounted my J pole upside down right to the underside of the
roof and I don't have half the RFI I get inside,  like I said, it's not like
being outside but it's probably better then half way there. Good thing about
that is, if you don't like it you can always change it down the road with
out it being obvious. I also used to have a scanner antenna hanging out the
vent up there, that worked pretty well too but I don't do that anymore, I
had a problem with that antenna and never did anything with it.  1 of those,
when I get around to it things.
John Miller N1UMJ
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----- Original Message -----
From: "JEFFREY MICHAEL KENYON" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:18 PM
Subject: antenna issues resolved!


> Hi everyone.  I have finally come to a solution to the antenna issues I
> have had to address here.  As it turned out I will be mounting the
> scanner/ham antenna in my attic.  I've already got cable running down to
> my room with this computer, and the person helping me seems to think this
> will be an improvement.  We've addressed issues of the elements up here,
> and they won't be a problem and I will be on second floor where the
> antenna in tattic will be on the third floor.  I'm just wondering how well
> this has worked for other people using VHF/UHF?
>