KB7RGG Posted September 12, 2022 Share Posted September 12, 2022 I'm finally setting up a station (been licensed a long time but never active) and need a little help with antenna ideas. I live in an HOA ruled community so I have to be a bit sneaky. I would like to be able to work 75/40/20 and have a little room to sneak up an end fed wire. The attached drawing shows what area I have in my back yard to play with. I say end fed because I don't want to run a line to the middle of a dipole. Right now I listen via a Terlin MTW Outbacker whip mounted on a tripod in the shack. I don't transmit because it's about 7 feet from me. The rig is a Kenwood TS-830S and I have a Vectronics VC-300DLP tuner to use with whatever I put up. Any suggestions on an antenna approach or a good book(s) on simple HF antenna design? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator WA2WMR Posted September 12, 2022 Moderator Share Posted September 12, 2022 Your drawing shows a building with an attic. When I lived in an HOA ruled home, I used Hamstick dipoles in the attic. Obviously not the best setup but I did work the Ukraine on 20CW. Don't know how well it would work for SSB. You could check out https://udel.edu/~mm/ham/randomWire/ I've used this for my end fed field day antenna setup. According to the chart, you would need 70 ft for 80/75. I don't know if I would go to the effort to attach the antenna high into a tree only to have the HOA snoops spot it and make me take it down a week later. Do you own the property? If so, can you put up a flagpole? Perhaps a fiberglass flagpole with a vertical inside of it. I use a Hustler 6BTV (not inside a flagpole, although I had considered that) with 20 radials and it works very nicely except for ground wave with stations using horizontal antennas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA9RW Posted November 22, 2022 Share Posted November 22, 2022 Question how high and large is your roof? also end feds are good for hiding in an hoa environment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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