Rain Gutter Antenna

However i recommend cw for such installations.

Rain gutter antenna.

I did use rain gutter as antenna and water pipe as ground it worked great from 160 mtr to 10 mtr. The wood the gutter is mounted to should be dry and of good quality. Mine was a mfj travel tuner. Including the feed wire into the shack the total length is in the neighborhood of 42 feet.

Also less interference is created to neighbour s tv etc from cw than ssb. This gutter antenna is connected via an upper roof level downspout where no personal contact is possible. 500 hz or narrower cw filter really takes away many noises compare to wider setting of ssb voice. Second article on the rain gutter antenna a couple of years ago i had written an article on the use of my rain gutter on my home as my hf antenna.

First you have to use a tuner. Very simple and the system worked for me. This configuration has also. Also feed it up high like a dipole not as a vertical against ground.

And weaker signal from such set up can be heard better in cw. Over a quarter wavelength for 40 meters and almost a half wave for 30 meters. Rain gutter antennas are a very old form of stealth antenna and can be very effective but there are some other things you must consider if you want to use your gutters. The feed to the rain gutter is barely visible in these photos as well as the braided connection to the radials.

The results have been surprisingly good for shortwave listening using the crane ccradioswshortwave receiver. Rain gutter antennas work better if you use a continuous insulated wire in the gutter or along side it. Low profile antenna for shortwave listening the rain gutter and downspout on the back porch were tried as a random length antenna. Rain gutter which is about 16 feet long across the front of the house.

The rain gutter antenna has a vertical component approximately 25 high and extends horizontally across the roof line for 35. Connect to the wire not the gutter. The rain gutter antenna has a vertical component approximately 25 high and extends horizontally across the roof line for 35. This all aluminum gutter is fed with coax with an unterminated shield at this end shield connected to radio ground at the other to reduce nearby computer hash from inside the house.

I had great time. The house is made of brick so the entire system is isolated from ground. On the sgc website there is a reprint of this article.