Gutter Antenna Counterpoise

It was a half eaten slice of pizza.

Gutter antenna counterpoise.

The counterpoise wires are made from garden variety stranded hookup wire cut to a quarter wavelength. First you have to use a tuner. While i was cleaning up i noticed something sitting on top of the antenna coupler. Unlike gregg s gutter antenna the spout and long horizontal section were made from plastic.

I went back up to the roof to work out a more orderly arrangement for the counterpoise. I went over to see what it was. This gutter antenna is connected via an upper roof level downspout where no personal contact is possible. Pic courtesy of n6cc website.

For good measure i attached counterpoise wires to the ground stud of the transmatch. Most of the original article is still relevant but i have. 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. Mine was a mfj travel tuner.

Counterpoise will improve your receive its the other side of the antenna. 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. Counterpoise will improve your receive its the other side of the antenna. If your longwire is close you might want to try the gutter as a counterpoise ground.

Apparently a bird had scavenged it from someone s trash and had put it up on the antenna coupler for safe. That article found its way into several ham radio publications and newsletters. 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. One each for 40 30 20 and 15 meters.