• Antennas [was SK]

    From Marc Lewis@1:396/45 to Jimmy Anderson on Wed May 1 04:14:49 2019
    Hello Jimmy.

    <On 30Apr2019 09:52 Jimmy Anderson (1:116/17) wrote a message to Marc Lewis regarding Re: SK >

    Marc Lewis wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    If you're interested, let me or Daryl know. We can get you started
    in the right direction. :)

    It's certainly worth considering! Antenna might get a bit tricky here
    in an apartment complex; have to check and see...

    There are ways around that, if you have repeaters nearby...

    Don't know, but I'm sure I can find out...

    If you have access to the roof you could lay out a ground plane
    antenna...

    Impossible to get to the roof, but like Sean mentioned, the gutter system might
    prove to be an efficient radiator/receiver. RG8U might be tricky to route out of the apartment without being obvious, but I can probably find a way to do it w/o it becoming an issue with the management. Been here for about 8 years now,
    so they really don't come snooping around my apartment at all; they get their rent on time every month so they really don't have any reason to come here other than an occasional maintenance call.

    I don't think I'll have much of a problem, if any, with the technician license.
    I'm already a CET (since 1990) in 3 different disciplines (Pro Audio, Consumer
    and Industrial Electronics with a sub specialty in computer repair.) Admittedly it's been a LONG LONG LONG time since electronics school and the antenna design/implementation part of the course. Graduated from the 2.5 year school in 1969!

    73,
    Marc

    ... If we can't fix it - its broken!
    --- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+
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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Marc Lewis on Wed May 1 17:30:54 2019
    Hello Marc,

    01 May 19 00:14 at you wrote to Jimmy Anderson:

    course. Graduated from the 2.5 year school in 1969!

    Probably hasn't changed much. :D

    Later,
    Sean

    ... I ain't broke, but I'm badly bent.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * Limestone, TN, USA (1:18/200)