Hi John,
Oh man, pal, loved your post!
So, it's a ground mounted verticle, huh?
Maybe you mentioned this already, I just can't remember, which verticle do you have? What bands is it used on? Do you need radials?
I loved my hygain 14avq ground mounted verticle, that's the antenna I was 59 pluses on 40 through 10, and 53s to 57s, on 80! I don't remember if it had radials on it though.
Thanks for sharing that post!
73,
Trippy, ac8s
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Miller 
  To: [log in to unmask] 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 8:39 PM
  Subject: Re: apartment dwelling antennas


  I lived in an apartment for a  year and a half but I asked before I signed 
  any paperwork and promised to keep it somewhat low profile, all he asked is 
  I not put up anything that will hurt anyone so I had a g5rv run form the 
  tree in one corner of the front yard to a tree at the opposite corner of the 
  back yard, and my dual band antenna was also hidden in the front tree. this 
  was an old building so the coaxes mixed in well with old cable and phone 
  wiring, unless you looked right up at the g5RV, or my feed through panel, 
  you'd never know it was even there and it worked. Making it easier was 
  climbing on the fire escape for the apartment across the hall, they had 
  bedrooms in the middle of the building one floor above me, that's all it was 
  though was 2 small bedrooms where I think was eaves originally, so you went 
  up on the fire escape and it was easy to throw the ropes over the trees. I 
  never once had any complaints from there and don't think most even knew it 
  was there until tropical storm irene took the trees down. Where I am now is 
  a trailer park, so we own the building but not the land and I have a ground 
  mounted vertical up for hf, a couple dual banders on the building for packet 
  and the very rare appearance on VHF FM and no one sees either antenna, and a 
  900 MHz antenna which again isn't very noticeable. I get questions here once 
  in a while including someone asking if I should bother his TV but I run good 
  coax, and a low pass filter just in case and don't bother anything in my 
  house so hopefully not anywhere else. With digital TV, and everyone here has 
  Comcast for phone internet and tv with very few exceptions where they use on 
  air tv, and I have fios from verizon but am the only one in the park with 
  that I know of, there's not much I should get in to.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: "Harry Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
  To: <[log in to unmask]>
  Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 6:48 PM
  Subject: Re: apartment dwelling antennas


  > Hi Eden,
  > Well, it's amazing, what an antenna tuner and wire can do.
  > Like you, I'm in an apartment, too, and getting a rig and antenna and =
  > tuner.
  > So, who's an apartment renter, at the moment, on this list?
  > I am, and Eden, and Eric, I think, out there in Ca.
  > Or, for anyone who lived in apartments, you all can be a help to us, as =
  > well.
  > One way or the other, every person in an apartment, on this list, is =
  > gonna get on the air, somehow, we're gonna make it happen!
  > Trippy, ac8s