Long Wire Antenna Attic

Installation of a wire antenna in my small attic as previously mentioned i ve recently built my first wire antenna.

Long wire antenna attic.

Green is the 15m long wire bicone antenna mounted in the loft yellow is a 40m long doublet fed with 450 ohm ladder line and an auto atu at the base blue is the 40m long ladder line fed doublet strapped as a tee and fed against 16 ground radials. Mac af4ps fp 51 note. Run the wire through the loops and let it hang slightly away from the wooden rafters. In order to really test it i decided to skip the step of a temporary outdoor deployment and just go ahead and put it in to it s final location.

Feeding a dipole off center makes the feed line act as part of the antenna unbalanced load thus it will pick up even more emi on the feed line. It was a lot of work but i ve gotten a lot better at things and i d say overall. The ge 20431 futura outdoor indoor attic tv antenna is one of the best looking options on the market. Dipole and long wire antennas can also be used with mobile outdoor style auto tuners feeding them in an attic space.

With his antenna matching unit providing an acceptable match he s on the air making contacts. The equivalent long wire is twice as long. Another local uses an hf loop antenna tacked up around the circumference of the ceiling of a second floor bedroom. Instead staple a closed tie wrap forming a loop at each stapling point.

The infamous attic dipole. The better your antenna the more success you will have making contacts. It s a long way from the rabbit ear designs you might think of when picturing indoor antennas and much cooler looking than the metal contraptions often found outdoors. The most economical and highly recommended measure is to insulate the bare antenna wire.

Loft attic antennas for restricted spaces. Zigzagging a bunch of wire in the attic will pick up distant radio signals poorly but electromagnetic interference emi from household electronics very well. The 1 2l dipole radiator driven element is 10 m long or so.