[CQ] HF Antenna

[Michael Shiloh]

i, for one, hope to take the two day nert intensive this thursday and 
next tuesday on cathedral hill.

Joachim Pedersen wrote:
>> Anyone have any recommendations or know what the politics of installing
>> things on the roof is? Could we install a wire antenna that covers most
>> of it?
> In general San Francisco is very restrictive when it comes to adding
> large things to the roofs of building that extend significantly higher
> than the roof line.
> 
> That being said, Ham radio operators occupy a special gray area
> because of the whole last line of defense/ham radio save world thing.
> Basically it is my understanding that the city is supposed to be
> *nice* to us within reason, as long as we arn't causing
> interference... etc etc...
> IF we wanted to go with anything decently big, it would look better if
> NB-CQ got cozy with our local NERT team...
> 
> This is a known issue, read more here:
> http://wireless.fcc.gov/services/index.htm?job=prb-1&id=amateur&page=4
> 
> On a side note, I have a six foot dual band 2m/70 vertical on my 3
> story apartment building roof that is just above the roof line. I was
> able to get my landlord to approve a few years back after I did all
> the wind loading calculations. No one has ever complained, but I only
> ever transmit at decently high power(>5W) late at night...
> 
> -Joachim
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> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 13:17, Jonathan Lassoff <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
>> I'd love to get a proper HF antenna going at 2169.
>>
>> I'm thinking a big inverted V or sloper from one corner of the roof to
>> the other.
>>
>> Anyone have any recommendations or know what the politics of installing
>> things on the roof is? Could we install a wire antenna that covers most
>> of it?
>>
>> I'm hoping to measure out the dimensions of what we're working with next
>> time I'm there.
>>
>> --j
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