I worked with a person who did that 7 timesKind of like Women...
Had a friend that once said that every 10 years he got the urge to buy some woman a house...
I worked with a person who did that 7 timesKind of like Women...
Had a friend that once said that every 10 years he got the urge to buy some woman a house...
I have hoa restrictions on my property, so my ham radio gear just sits in a box. Use to have a Force 12 C4 beam on my 38 foot tower, but alas, no more. My extra class license is just a nice to have now.Hate to say on a gun forum but in the time since retiring ham radio has gotten more of my time and money than guns.
I have hoa restrictions on my property, so my ham radio gear just sits in a box. Use to have a Force 12 C4 beam on my 38 foot tower, but alas, no more. My extra class license is just a nice to have now.
I'm also under HOA restrictions. I'm using an inverted vee at 25 feet. I plan to raise this higher and use the roof gutters as an antenna as well.I have HOA restrictions too, but just have a 20' vertical in the backyard that can't be seen from the road.
It's no beam, but I've made hundreds of contacts in Europe, Japan, Russia, and South America.
Got my technician license and will be testing Monday for my general license. Programing with chirp is much easier the on the radio.
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Do a few practice tests on QRZ.com before taking the General Test. Good luck!Got my technician license and will be testing Monday for my general license. Programing with chirp is much easier the on the radio.
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I've done it as my first try at an antenna in the attic. Didn't work well at all since the attic roof insulation has metal foil backing turning the attic into a Faraday cage. Outside it worked better, but had to use PVC pipe to keep it from drooping onto the ground.Anybody ever try the slinky dipole antenna? I even have a brass slinky but never got around to try- HOA and is pretty flat around here. Might just go for it and wait for the warning letter and play dumb.
Do a few practice tests on QRZ.com before taking the General Test. Good luck!
I'm in a HOA and have a 100 foot wire antenna at 30 feet. It isn't easily noticed from the street due to the roofs and trees. The fiberglass mast will likely get extended to 43 feet soon. Using an Acom amplifier and a tuner I'm able to work 12, 15, 17, 20, 40 and 80 meter bands. I've never been on the 160 band so I don't miss having it.HOA other restrictions are supposed to allow exemptions for television antennas. Some of those huge television antennas with an antenna matcher and a bit of redesign can blend in many places.
I have my ham license and have using it more on the project list.
Urban and suburban restrictions make me think of the antenna that would raise up from inside a flag pole on Hogan's Heroes.
A flag pole antenna was on my list of options to get on the air if it became necessary. An HOA would have a very difficult time telling a vet that he couldn't fly an American Flag. Fortunately the HOA didn't present a problem.Urban and suburban restrictions make me think of the antenna that would raise up from inside a flag pole on Hogan's Heroes.
Our HOA made a Marine vet move his flag pole from the front yard to the back yard. Luckily that HOA president is no more. We are moving to a more chill HOA now (no more idiots in golf carts looking for violations).A flag pole antenna was on my list of options to get on the air if it became necessary. An HOA would have a very difficult time telling a vet that he couldn't fly an American Flag. Fortunately the HOA didn't present a problem.