The coax would likely get in the way of people walking by unless you are parked directly in front of your apartment and there is no sidewalk between your car and the apartment.
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Some radio hams have an attic antenna as a backup to their main antenna on the roof.
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I recently put a ham radio antenna on my roof so i could get better signal inside my apartment which isn t on a high floor.
Also your antenna and the coax would be easy to spot.
The coax would likely get in the way of people walking by unless you are parked directly in front of your apartment and there is no sidewalk between your car and the apartment.
My house is a 2 story house with an unfinished attic and i was looking at getting a roof tripod mast with a 5 foot pipe and 2m vertical.
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The coax shield would then be properly terminated at both ends and stop being a rogue antenna.
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In some cases the coax would cross part of the parking lot and people would have to drive over it.
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You should then make the coax shield connect properly to the pl 259 connectors at each end.
You could opt for a commercially made 9 1 unun.
Also your antenna and the coax would be easy to spot.
I had several rg 58 213 and lmr 240 400 coax cables in place between the shack and attic space but instead of running more coax i decided to use a remote antenna switch in the attic to feed the 2m through 70cm beams and one discone antenna.
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Hide stuff in the closet one of the challenges you may encounter is getting the coaxial cable up into the attic.
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Unun stands for unbalanced coaxial line to unbalanced antenna.
My original plan was to make a 3 4 1 hole on the side of the house right under the arch of the roof run the cable through the attic and down the wall of the room where i want the radio.
Install a 9 1 unun at the antenna end of the coax.
You can always just punch a hole through the drywall ceiling and run the cable through.
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