A couple of years ago i had written an article on the use of my rain gutter on my home as my hf antenna.
Rain gutter shortwave antenna.
Trying to drive the gutter itself as an antenna is really asking for trouble.
Post by johnmd1022 sun jan 05 2020 7 01 pm i have limited possibilities for an antenna but ran into references to rain gutters.
I did use rain gutter as antenna and water pipe as ground it worked great from 160 mtr to 10 mtr.
Second article on the rain gutter antenna.
Rain gutter hf antenna n6cc com above.
I was surprised that the gutter tuned up at a.
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.
Rain gutters are notorious for having poor electrical contacts at joints that act as diodes and cause severe tvi merely because an antenna is near them.
The results have been surprisingly good for shortwave listening using the crane ccradioswshortwave receiver.
The multiband long wire shortwave antenna a much better but more complicated antenna this antenna is end supported and designed to receive the major shortwave bands between 90 meters and 16 meters.
Would looping the lead in wire around the gutter or downspout work or is a physical metal to metal connection necessary.
I did a quick coax run to the outside gutter and grounded the braided side then connected the feedline to an old mfj tuner.
I built variations of this antenna when i lived in several rental homes on hawaii island shortly after getting my novice class amateur radio license back in 1977.
Unlike gregg s gutter antenna the spout and long horizontal section were made from plastic.
The rain gutter antenna has a vertical component approximately 25 high and extends horizontally across the roof line for 35.
I have wanted to try this for a while but never got around to it until today.
500 hz or narrower cw filter really takes away many noises compare to wider setting of ssb voice.
Stealth gutter antenna for ham radio or shortwave.
This gutter antenna is connected via an upper roof level downspout where no personal contact is possible.
I had great time.
And weaker signal from such set up can be heard better in cw.
This configuration has also.
It uses only 4 wires and a unique antenna property called harmonics to get 8 bands using only 4 wires.
