you probably won't have too much trouble with tvi now since everybody's on
cable unless you have fundamental overload which could happen if you have a
tv in the ham shack. 73- pat kk3f
----- Original Message -----
From: "richard fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 4:48 PM
Subject: Re: antenna topics
> Hi;
> Sounds like an interesting set up. Will you have room for 32 foot
> radials? I will be curious if you have t v i issues once hf is up and
> running. My battles of the 1980s kind of turned the kids & xyl off.
> Richard
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Miller <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Wednesday, Jan 11, 2012 06:40:11 PM
> Subject: Re: antenna topics
>
>>
>>
>> I'm in a mobile home park now and so far find as long as I go with
>> verticals, it's fitting alright. I may have to make one look like a flag
>> pole, but so far the dual bander is attached to the side of the front
>> porch
>> on about 15 feet of mast, and if you look quick it looks like a support
>> for
>> the onning that goes up a little too high. 900 MHz is in a corner in
>> back,
>> again you can't see it unless you look for it and the people with the
>> best
>> view are never home anyway. The HF vertical will go up when the ground
>> thaws
>> again and will be ground mounted though for now I have a temporary setup
>> on
>> the aluminum steps to the back porch, ham sticks is all that will be
>> basically and maybe my Carolina bug catcher, I haven't run the coax yet
>> around to my feed through panel but I'm getting there. It was run until I
>> changed everything around, it won't be great but should work reasonably
>> well. So far, visibility isn't too bad, and my lot is probably less than
>> that 35x120 you mentioned since I'm in a mobile home park. If it is that
>> big, just barely, figure either side of me I have a road on one side and
>> I'm
>> maybe 8 feet off it, and the other side, I don't know where the property
>> line is but I know there's not more than 15 feet between us and the
>> neighbor
>> who's never home, behind us is where there's room but how much I'm not
>> sure,
>> my lot might be 120 feet long all totaled, width, property line to road,
>> maybe 35 feet. I wish there were trees for a wire but nope, vertical will
>> be
>> alright though, maybe a small wire along my roof or something when I have
>> time to make one.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Richard Fiorello" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 4:46 PM
>> Subject: antenna topics
>>
>>
>> > Hi;
>> > Just to investigate a new thread it might be interesting to know who
>> > managed a usable hf antenna system on the smallest yard? I definitely
>> > have to make some changes come spring or put things on the market so
>> > might get some good ideas from this thought. My first home was on a
>> > lot
>> > that was 35 by 120. The good news was that things were set up so that
>> > a
>> > tripod at the front of the house and a tripod on the garage worked
>> > nicely for the dxdd. We won't talk about the woman who threatened
>> > legal
>> > action because of t v i.
>> > --
>> > richard
>
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