Antenna selection home base station

[SteveShannon]

28 minutes ago, WRUU653 said:

potential dangers exist

I see what you did there

[WRUU653]

1 hour ago, Sshannon said:

I see what you did there

Too much?

[WRWR489]

I have my telescoping flag pole on the way. It will be secured to my second story deck railing and a five gallon bucket of concrete for the base then secured to the fascia board 8 feet up. On top will be my tuned today Tram 1486. A 50 foot run of Times Microwave LMR400 to the wouxon 1000g and the house service ground directly below the deck.

Edited April 8, 2023 by WRWR489
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[MarkInTampa]

26 minutes ago, WRWR489 said:

I have my telescoping flag pole on the way. It will be secured to my second story deck railing and a five gallon bucket of concrete for the base then secured to the fascia board 8 feet up. On top will be my tuned today Tram 1486. A 50 foot run of Times Microwave LMR400 to the wouxon 1000g and the house service ground directly below the deck.

I just did a flag pole for my antenna (Comet GP-6 GMRS/MURS) yesterday, see the thread I posted earlier today if it helps you any.

 

 

[diddlyv]

I two am a newbie who just received my Wouxun KG1000 G Plus radio.  I am also looking for a base station antenna.  I really do not want to set up a long mast, tower or flag pole given the HOA already prohibits flags.  Was thinking of something like a 4 to 6 Foot piece of PVC securely mounted to the edge of the roof with some kind of antenna on the top.  Is there a decent dual band antenna out there that will work, not break the bank and not need to be tied down with 87 guy wires to keep it from blowing a way.

Looking for recommendations on antenna and mounting.  That J-Pole mentioned at the beginning of the thread looks interesting.

[nokones]

8 hours ago, diddlyv said:

I two am a newbie who just received my Wouxun KG1000 G Plus radio.  I am also looking for a base station antenna.  I really do not want to set up a long mast, tower or flag pole given the HOA already prohibits flags.  Was thinking of something like a 4 to 6 Foot piece of PVC securely mounted to the edge of the roof with some kind of antenna on the top.  Is there a decent dual band antenna out there that will work, not break the bank and not need to be tied down with 87 guy wires to keep it from blowing a way.

Looking for recommendations on antenna and mounting.  That J-Pole mentioned at the beginning of the thread looks interesting.

Dual Band? What two bands? 

This is what I went with Laird FG4605 5 dB Omni

[WRWR489]

Move to the country and build a tower!

[WRUU653]

4 hours ago, WRWR489 said:

Move to the country and build a tower

I thought it was move to the country eat a lot of peaches, or something like that.

[WRWR489]

You would love it! Peach and Apple orchards around here!

[WRWR462]

On 4/13/2023 at 11:44 PM, WRUU653 said:

I thought it was move to the country eat a lot of peaches, or something like that.

If I had my little way, I'd eat peaches every day...

[wayoverthere]

1 hour ago, WRWR462 said:

If I had my little way, I'd eat peaches every day...

Millions of peaches, peaches for me

[Radioguy7268]

IMHO

Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man in a factory downtown.

 

[WRWR462]

25 minutes ago, Radioguy7268 said:

IMHO

Peaches come from a can, they were put there by a man in a factory downtown.

 

I wonder how many know what we're saying... I'll be honest, this is more than I thought.. lol

[WRUU653]

3 hours ago, WRWR462 said:

I wonder how many know what we're saying... I'll be honest, this is more than I thought.. lol

I know, I had no idea I was pushing a virtual domino of peaches responses.  Can’t get it out of my head now

[WRWR462]

6 hours ago, WRUU653 said:

I know, I had no idea I was pushing a virtual domino of peaches responses.  Can’t get it out of my head now

And im sure everyone else has had enough of our erroneous and horrible singing so....

We now return you to your regularly scheduled topic "Antenna selection home base station"

[mrobisr]

On 3/30/2023 at 4:46 PM, Sshannon said:

This is absolutely correct.  A lot of people assume that if a tower is grounded at its base, it provides some level of protection, but it must be bonded to the electrical service ground system as well.  It's not uncommon to measure a voltage between two different points in the ground and without bonding, that voltage is being carried on the shield of your antenna feed line and through your radio equipment.

A simplified and illustrated reference that's pretty understandable is this one.  It refers to "Radio Telescopes" but don't let that hang you up:

https://reeve.com/Documents/Articles Papers/Reeve_AntennaSystemGroundingRequirements.pdf but the ones WRUU653 posted above are good to have as well. 

A denser article is the one I've attached below from Polyphasor.  It's not as easy to digest (at least for me), but it's more specific for some things. Some of the most important points, such as the importance of a single point ground, can be too easily overlooked.

Steve

 

1485-013.pdf 101.74 kB · 4 downloads

If I ground my antenna pole at the base and have the Ed Fong antenna encased in PVC pipe should I be concerned about the current being carried back into my radio equipment?

[SteveShannon]

3 minutes ago, mrobisr said:

If I ground my antenna pole at the base and have the Ed Fong antenna encased in PVC pipe should I be concerned about the current being carried back into my radio equipment?

Yes.