Subj : Antennas [was SK] To : Jimmy Anderson From : Marc Lewis Date : Wed May 01 2019 00:14:49 Hello Jimmy. -=> Marc Lewis wrote to Sean Dennis <=- SD> If you're interested, let me or Daryl know. We can get you started SD> in the right direction. :) ML> It's certainly worth considering! Antenna might get a bit tricky here ML> in an apartment complex; have to check and see... JA> There are ways around that, if you have repeaters nearby... Don't know, but I'm sure I can find out... JA> If you have access to the roof you could lay out a ground plane JA> antenna... Impossible to get to the roof, but like Sean mentioned, the gutter system might prove to be an efficient radiator/receiver. RG8U might be tricky to route out of the apartment without being obvious, but I can probably find a way to do it w/o it becoming an issue with the management. Been here for about 8 years now, so they really don't come snooping around my apartment at all; they get their rent on time every month so they really don't have any reason to come here other than an occasional maintenance call. I don't think I'll have much of a problem, if any, with the technician license. I'm already a CET (since 1990) in 3 different disciplines (Pro Audio, Consumer and Industrial Electronics with a sub specialty in computer repair.) Admittedly it's been a LONG LONG LONG time since electronics school and the antenna design/implementation part of the course. Graduated from the 2.5 year school in 1969! 73, Marc .... If we can't fix it - its broken! --- timEd/2 1.10.y2k+ * Origin: Sursum Corda! BBS-Huntsville,AL-bbs.sursum-corda.com (1:396/45) .