Copper Gutter Antenna

Some words of caution are in order however if you plan to use your rainspout as an antenna.

Copper gutter antenna.

Copper gutter model fercp6 1 52 1 52. Free delivery with 45 order. K style copper gutter model k10cp6 112 89 112 89. Make sure your gutter and downspout are isolated from ground.

It is 80 feet long and off center fed as a windom with a single wire lead in to a tuner. Worked europe easily with no local rfi that i know of hi. I fed the gutter outside our window and laid a counterpoise on the apartment floor. During wet weather this type of antenna will usually perform very poorly.

Unlike gregg s gutter antenna the spout and long horizontal section were made from plastic. Set your store to see local availability add to cart. I originally did a write up on it in 1994. Amerimax home products 6 in.

I ve always fed gutter antennas from the bottom of a downspout using a coax pigtail one end with an so 239 uhf connector same as what s on the back of most ham cb radios center of the coax going to the gutter and braid going to a nearby grounding point of some kind either a ground rod worst case scenario radials better or groundrod. It is the rain gutter along the front of a house. So i just ran an appropriate length of 18 awg speaker wire inside the plastic downspout and horizontal section sealing the ends with waterproof silicone caulk and attached the antenna segment to the main wire of some rg 8 coax while i connected the. Rain gutter antennas are a very old form of stealth antenna and can be very effective but there are some other things you must consider if you want to use your gutters.

Most of the original article is still relevant but i have. Amerimax home products 6 in. Below is a photo of a simple effective and entirely covert hf antenna. That article found its way into several ham radio publications and newsletters.

Make sure there is solid electrical continuity between the various sections of your downspout and gutter. K style copper ferrule for 6 in. In fact the downspout has now become my main antenna.