[amsat-bb] Antenna Location

[Bob Hammond]

I use a fiberglass mast by MGS for my M2 LEO antennas and G5500 rotator.
Works fine.
You may not have enough room for the guy lines?  I have expired HOA
covenants, the best kind!
Mine is up about 30-35 feet.  PM me for details if you're interested.

Bob W7OTJ

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 12:08 PM Rich Gopstein via AMSAT-BB <
amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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> 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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