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Ham Radio Workbench Podcast Episodes

Antennas for HOA Restricted Areas

8/14/2018

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Dr. Jack Mandelman K1VT joins us to talk about being a Ham and living in a neighborhood with an HOA that restricts antenna installations.  We will talk about approaches and some equipment that one can use to be active on HF when living with such restrictions. We also touch on the role that transmitting and receiving magnetic loop antennas can play in getting you on the air from within an HOA restricted area.

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7 Comments
John Hall
8/15/2018 15:31:11

Regarding tapping the IF or RF from a transceiver to feed an SDR. Dave G4HUP (SK) designed a little board called HUP-RF with a high-z JFET input and a emitter follower to drive the RF output to the SDR. It's small enough to fit into almost any rig. Dave KD2C now makes and sells an improved version called PAT (PanAdapter Tap) for various IF frequencies. I prefer a fixed bandscope rather than a panadapter display that tunes with the rig, so for my TS-590 I chose to tap the RF input, not the IF. I tapped it just upstream from the T/R relay so no RF from the transmitter gets into my delicate SDR receiver. It feeds a little SMA connector I added to the back of the rig. It works great and doesn't seem to degrade the rig's receive performance at all.

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Jose B Rivera link
8/19/2018 17:35:59

I found that the gentleman was limiting himself. A few times he choose not to use a particular antenna because things were not perfect. For instance, not enough room to place optimal radials. Those of us who live in NYC apartments, go with it anyway and make contacts all the time (not digital, SSB). I am currently using a Tarheel 100A antenna indoors due to Coop restrictions and I do pretty well with the tarheel and home made magnetic loop antennas. 73 de N2LRB.

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John VE3IPS
8/21/2018 16:48:47

Some hams take to picnic table operating at the park down the street and able to get on the air within their neighborhood. A FT-891 and a PackTenna or the MFJ 17 foot whip and a BioEnno battery in a bag gets you on the air.

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John VE3IPS
8/21/2018 16:46:57

Great Show. I use an Attic antenna dipole with 10 watts and can work 40m and 20m no problem. I also throw up a PackTenna End fed for 20 meters in my back tree and I can make contacts and the black silky wire is hard to see and when I am done I pull the wire back in.
The car parked in the driveway is an excellent option and you just need to run the coax into the garage. You even you can clip a dual band antenna onto your satellite dish and make DMR or DStar contacts.

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Paul
9/3/2018 20:34:34

I really enjoyed this episode. Dr Jack is a great guest. I hope you can get him back sometime for an episode on mag loops. The LZ1AQ preamp is a great product. I use it with a single 1m loop of 6mm copper plumbing tube. Paired with the Airspy HF+ I can receive FT8 from all over the Pacific from California even when the band conditions are not great. When 20m opens up I start to pick up Europe as well. This is with the loop about 2m above ground in the back yard.

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12/2/2018 20:08:49

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Jeff Butterfield
9/2/2019 14:34:33

A very interesting program! In his comments, Jack mentioned inexpensive PWM wireless motor controls. Could you post some more information about these? Sources?

Thanks

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