Wife made my day today!
The wife called me in from cutting the grass and told me she tired of my lack of desire or motivation in anything and want to know whats going on and is it something she did. She was shocked to learn it had nothing to do with her but was due to not being able to tinker and play with my radios.{Cry_river} I still have 2 radios that I can't seem to sell a old 148gtl and a 29ltd well one thing led to another and she told me to go figure out a way to make myself happy to which I told her I can't put my antenna up.:sad: After she proceeded to tell me she has seen me on a roof in snow standing on a extension ladder to put up an antenna that I could "FIND A WAY!" She made me leave the house and go "fix myself".
I took a trip to...Radio Shack and found a 50' piece of old rg-8 for $20 and a 5 watt power supply for $30 and a few various connectors and headed home....Well after about 2 hours of tinkering I came up with a solution. I ran my coax up the corner of my siding under the corner cap to the roof and under the facia board to the peak on the back side of my house and then strung a homemade dipole about 6" above the peak of the home and used wooden dowel rods to support it (painted silver). But I extended the dipole with black dacron from end to end of the house and ran a dummy piece of wire down the side of the house to a 2' piece of rebar in the ground, Why you ask because the local code enforcement officer lives 2 doors down and walked down to see what I was up to (he don't like me). Told him it was a lightning arrestor system so my house don't get hit and burn. He bought it and also gave me a HH12-3 form on the spot and approved it! The form is for any mod done to your home that might be visible to neighbors. I have a great signal north and south and made a contact to Alsip Illinois from here in Steger Illinois which is about 25 miles.: I have a huge tree in the back yard but I'm unsure about how to get coax to it without having a 200' run. I am currently using the 148gtl on a power supply. Sure is quiet after sundown around here.:sad:
The wife called me in from cutting the grass and told me she tired of my lack of desire or motivation in anything and want to know whats going on and is it something she did. She was shocked to learn it had nothing to do with her but was due to not being able to tinker and play with my radios.{Cry_river} I still have 2 radios that I can't seem to sell a old 148gtl and a 29ltd well one thing led to another and she told me to go figure out a way to make myself happy to which I told her I can't put my antenna up.:sad: After she proceeded to tell me she has seen me on a roof in snow standing on a extension ladder to put up an antenna that I could "FIND A WAY!" She made me leave the house and go "fix myself".
I took a trip to...Radio Shack and found a 50' piece of old rg-8 for $20 and a 5 watt power supply for $30 and a few various connectors and headed home....Well after about 2 hours of tinkering I came up with a solution. I ran my coax up the corner of my siding under the corner cap to the roof and under the facia board to the peak on the back side of my house and then strung a homemade dipole about 6" above the peak of the home and used wooden dowel rods to support it (painted silver). But I extended the dipole with black dacron from end to end of the house and ran a dummy piece of wire down the side of the house to a 2' piece of rebar in the ground, Why you ask because the local code enforcement officer lives 2 doors down and walked down to see what I was up to (he don't like me). Told him it was a lightning arrestor system so my house don't get hit and burn. He bought it and also gave me a HH12-3 form on the spot and approved it! The form is for any mod done to your home that might be visible to neighbors. I have a great signal north and south and made a contact to Alsip Illinois from here in Steger Illinois which is about 25 miles.: I have a huge tree in the back yard but I'm unsure about how to get coax to it without having a 200' run. I am currently using the 148gtl on a power supply. Sure is quiet after sundown around here.:sad:
