Rain Gutter Antenna

500 hz or narrower cw filter really takes away many noises compare to wider setting of ssb voice.

Rain gutter antenna.

First you have to use a tuner. Mine was a mfj travel tuner. The wood the gutter is mounted to should be dry and of good quality. I had great time.

I did use rain gutter as antenna and water pipe as ground it worked great from 160 mtr to 10 mtr. During wet weather this type of antenna will usually perform very poorly. Connect to the wire not the gutter. The house is made of brick so the entire system is isolated from ground.

Rain gutter antennas pic courtesy of n6cc website by grey wolf i got this idea about writing about my antenna because i had one once in the condo that worked very well down to about 40 meters. Very simple and the system worked for me. Also less interference is created to neighbour s tv etc from cw than ssb. The rain gutter antenna has a vertical component approximately 25 high and extends horizontally across the roof line for 35.

Rain gutter hf antenna n6cc com above. The feed to the rain gutter is barely visible in these photos as well as the braided connection to the radials. This all aluminum gutter is fed with coax with an unterminated shield at this end shield connected to radio ground at the other to reduce nearby computer hash from inside the house. The results have been surprisingly good for shortwave listening using the crane ccradioswshortwave receiver.

Including the feed wire into the shack the total length is in the neighborhood of 42 feet. On the sgc website there is a reprint of this article. The rain gutter antenna has a vertical component approximately 25 high and extends horizontally across the roof line for 35. Low profile antenna for shortwave listening the rain gutter and downspout on the back porch were tried as a random length antenna.

Over a quarter wavelength for 40 meters and almost a half wave for 30 meters. And weaker signal from such set up can be heard better in cw. This configuration has also. Rain gutter antennas work better if you use a continuous insulated wire in the gutter or along side it.

Rain gutter which is about 16 feet long across the front of the house. This gutter antenna is connected via an upper roof level downspout where no personal contact is possible. Second article on the rain gutter antenna a couple of years ago i had written an article on the use of my rain gutter on my home as my hf antenna.