End Fed Gutter Antenna

Including the feed wire into the shack the total length is in the neighborhood of 42 feet.

End fed gutter antenna.

An advantage of end fed antennas is of course the simplicity especially for fieldwork this is a huge advantage. Over a quarter wavelength for 40 meters and almost a half wave for 30 meters. Of all the things in this hobby antenna design and use is the most fun for me. It can be configured to be used with dipoles and inverted vees as well.

You are on air within 5 minutes. An additional advantage is that the antenna can easily be polarized vertically. The point of course is stealth. Rain gutter antenna an end fed multiband antenna larry nelson k5ijb.

This automatically tunable antenna coupler is an ideal solution for this type of installation due to the fact that the rain gutter looks like a non resonant end. Next run our jumper wire from the top of the alpha match and clip it onto your gutter make sure the jumper wire is not laying on or touching the ground. Also if you have a non aluminum gutter plastic you can snake wire inside as well and load that. Take a brillo pad to the feed point tap.

Put a telescopic mast against a pole hook the antenna to the top and slide it out. Rain gutter which is about 16 feet long across the front of the house. Place any metal rod that is between 3 8 to 1 inch in diameter into the ground then slip our top of mast mount over it. In hopes of finding a low profile antenna for shortwave listening the rain gutter and downspout on the back porch were tried as a random length antenna.

The house is made of brick so the entire system is isolated from ground.