Dielectrically cooked birds!  What will they think up next? <grin>

--Lou, K2LKK



At 12:35 PM 8/28/2007 -0600, you wrote:
>      A 2 meter friend of mine married a well to do lady who
>insisted they move to a better part of town.  This better place
>wasn't for hams because it had bad antenna covenants and they
>wouldn't allow any outdoor antennas for anything.  He did squeak a
>15 meter wire antenna up in the attic of the house but he wasn't
>satisfied with the results.  I told him to check with the home
>owners association to see if having a bird feeder on a tall pole
>was ok.  It was.  I told him to buy a vertical, one of the shorter
>ones like 20 through 10 meters, stick it inside PVC pipe, and at
>the top, drill holes for the loading coil spokes to stick through.
>I said they will just think they are perches for birds.  Isn't
>that nice of you.  I told him to buy four 8 foot ground rods and
>pound them down below the grass level so they could not be seen,
>or even into the ground and below the surface an inch and connect
>wires to them and run them beneath the soil to the base of the PVC
>pipe where they could connect to the ground of the vertical.  He
>did.  I told him to put a bird house on top of the PVC pipe.  He
>did.  He ran 2 KW without anybody knowing he had an outside
>antenna and he got out big time on those higher bands.
>
>Phil.
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