Sure pass them along when can and this is all good info.

Well have brand new windows installed in the house and that's why no coax
has been run into the ham shack since then as waiting to get my handyman
over to drill the hole in the side of the house to pull the coax into the
ham shack as don't want to damage the screens or windows and void the
warrantee by running the coax through the windows like before.

But, that's going to be no telling when.  So figured if could come up with
something temporally then would try that.

Tnx cul 73 nr4dr


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Gary Lee
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 9:48 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: indoor hf antenna

Don:
You have several options.

1.  run a loop through a couple of rooms at the edge of the ceiling.

2.  a 50 foot piece of 300 ohm twinlead split approximately 17 feet down 
makes a decent 20 meter dipole and gives a feedline of around 33 feet.  If 
memory serves this will repeat the 75 ohm impedance of the dipole and give 
about a 1.5 swr.

Use one of those bnc to binding post adapters to connect to your tuner.
Finally, a simple quarter wave wire tacked to the ceiling, run to the 
center of the pl connector, and some quarter wave radials laid on the floor 
will give satisfactory results.

I have used all the above with qrp, and they work well enough.

Hope this helps.

Have a couple of ideas for minimal outdoor installations where coax would 
not be necessary if you are interested.

73