Installing A Ham Loop Antenna In A Garage Attic

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Installing a ham loop antenna in a garage attic.

Unun stands for unbalanced coaxial line to unbalanced antenna. The one i recommend. Installation of a wire antenna in my small attic as previously mentioned i ve recently built my first wire antenna. Often amateur radio operators are looking for alternative locations to install their antennas.

With his antenna matching unit providing an acceptable match he s on the air making contacts. Another local uses an hf loop antenna tacked up around the circumference of the ceiling of a second floor bedroom. If the space allows consider mounting your antennas in the attic. 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.

Install a 9 1 unun at the antenna end of the coax. If you have some sort of attic in your home apartment or condo you re in luck. Antennas generally perform best when they re out in the clear but there is no law that says you can t use an outdoor antenna indoors. Dipole and long wire antennas can also be used with mobile outdoor style auto tuners feeding them in an attic space.

My attic antenna setup featuring the alpha delta dx cc antenna and my n9tax dual band 2m 70cm antenna. The near vertical portion of wire 20 ft from the attic shortwave antenna to the receiver could pick up vertically polarized electrostatic interference.