Ham Antenna For Attic

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Ham antenna for attic.

Yes in the attic. A second advantage to mounting the antenna in the attic is that you will be protected from lightning strikes in the event of severe weather. On hf wire beams can be run on the roof supports or the rafters these usually are good for one direction only but can be switched electrically for different coverage. Many hams including many of you reading this are limited by hoa or other outdoor antenna restrictions.

But even if you can t put up an outdoor antenna you can still operate with antennas installed in an accessible attic space. If it is mostly used by ham radio operators to solve problems while transmitting the mfj 931 shouldalso work for a receive only purpose. Again stay away from metal and wires to maintain your pattern. For best results you would first tune the receiver to the frequency you.

Lots of amateurs in these situations are doing so successfully especially on hf. The mfj 931 could potentially be used a tuned counterpoisefor your attic shortwave antenna. Hf active loop antenna the cross country wireless hf active loop antenna is a compact receiving loop with a frequency range of 200 khz to 70 mhz with. The house will act as a natural shield and as long as your attic mounted antenna system is independent to the rest of your antennas lightning won t be an issue.

This is great for the amateur radio operator that is providing net control activities during a skywarn severe weather activation. On vhf a beam antenna can work well in the attic even a rotator can be used.