[amsat-bb] Antenna Location

[Rich Gopstein]

Thanks.  I've gotten a number of responses ranging from:
Put up a tower
Put it in the attic
Put it on a tripod on the roof
And - yours - put it somewhere reasonable and don't freak out about the
attenuation.

The garage and the house both have 8/12 pitch roofs, so that's my concern
with mounting on the roof.  I've done it before but I'm happy about it.
The garage is lower, so less of a fall, but still steep.

I might be able to get a small AZ/EL setup inside the attic above the
garage.  The issue there is my shack is on the exact opposite side of the
house.  So, I'd most likely need to move the shack to the garage attic.
There's power up there, but no insulation.  Maybe I could put the IC-9700
there and remotely control it?

I've thought about a tower... But there are so many tower options, it's a
little daunting.  If I put the tower just outside where the shack is, I'd
need about 38' to clear the highest peak of the house roof.  I could go
lower and just live with a little extra attenuation from the house roof.
And I assume any tower would come with the need to deal with the local
zoning/permit guys.  If I go that route, I'd want the tower to be high
enough to use as the center of a dipole also.

Too many options...

Rich
KD2CQ





On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 2:18 PM satop <satop at protonmail.com> wrote:

> Rich, my last location was worse than yours I believe.  I lived in an
> large city two story home with 9' ceilings and a large peak roof, think
> 1903 style.  There was a three story home on the east side and a three
> story church on the west.  Three very large oak trees in the front and very
> poor aim points to the north.  I mounted my tripod on a one story wood shed
> on the north end of the home.  I had about a 60' run of hardline to the
> shack and used high gain yagi antennas for vhf/uhf.  This setup worked
> fantasy and always was amazing to me.  I even pre purchased a Super-Amp
> SP-7000 for UHF but never found that I needed it.  Use some antennas with
> some gain and I'll bet you'll be just fine mounting on the garage or lower
> build.
>
> Gary/N8AYY
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