End Fed Gutter Antenna

An additional advantage is that the antenna can easily be polarized vertically.

End fed gutter antenna.

The house is made of brick so the entire system is isolated from ground. Also if you have a non aluminum gutter plastic you can snake wire inside as well and load that. You are on air within 5 minutes. 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.

An advantage of end fed antennas is of course the simplicity especially for fieldwork this is a huge advantage. The results have been surprisingly good for shortwave listening using the crane ccradiosw shortwave receiver. It can be configured to be used with dipoles and inverted vees as well. The links at the end of the article are really good idea joggers.

Rain gutter which is about 16 feet long across the front of the house. The point of course is stealth. Of all the things in this hobby antenna design and use is the most fun for me. 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.

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. The automatic antenna coupler is designed for use with end fed unbalanced antennas such as whips and long wires. Including the feed wire into the shack the total length is in the neighborhood of 42 feet. Take a brillo pad to the feed point tap.

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.