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.
Rain gutter shortwave antenna.
And weaker signal from such set up can be heard better in cw.
I was surprised that the gutter tuned up at a.
Post by johnmd1022 sun jan 05 2020 7 01 pm i have limited possibilities for an antenna but ran into references to rain gutters.
500 hz or narrower cw filter really takes away many noises compare to wider setting of ssb voice.
I did a quick coax run to the outside gutter and grounded the braided side then connected the feedline to an old mfj tuner.
This configuration has also.
I have wanted to try this for a while but never got around to it until today.
The results have been surprisingly good for shortwave listening using the crane ccradioswshortwave receiver.
Low profile antenna for shortwave listening the rain gutter and downspout on the back porch were tried as a random length antenna.
I did use rain gutter as antenna and water pipe as ground it worked great from 160 mtr to 10 mtr.
Stealth gutter antenna for ham radio or shortwave.
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.
Second article on the rain gutter antenna.
This gutter antenna is connected via an upper roof level downspout where no personal contact is possible.
Unlike gregg s gutter antenna the spout and long horizontal section were made from plastic.
It uses only 4 wires and a unique antenna property called harmonics to get 8 bands using only 4 wires.
Rain gutter hf antenna n6cc com above.
However i recommend cw for such installations.
Trying to drive the gutter itself as an antenna is really asking for trouble.
A couple of years ago i had written an article on the use of my rain gutter on my home as my hf antenna.
Also less interference is created to neighbour s tv etc from cw than ssb.
I had great time.
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.
