Installing A Ham Loop Antenna In A Garage Attic

Installation of a wire antenna in my small attic as previously mentioned i ve recently built my first wire antenna.

Installing a ham loop antenna in a garage attic.

Install a 9 1 unun at the antenna end of the coax. Antennas generally perform best when they re out in the clear but there is no law that says you can t use an outdoor antenna indoors. Unun stands for unbalanced coaxial line to unbalanced antenna. If you have some sort of attic in your home apartment or condo you re in luck.

This calls for a little creativity. The near vertical portion of wire 20 ft from the attic shortwave antenna to the receiver could pick up vertically polarized electrostatic interference. Another local uses an hf loop antenna tacked up around the circumference of the ceiling of a second floor bedroom. If the space allows consider mounting your antennas in the attic.

The one i recommend. Often amateur radio operators are looking for alternative locations to install their antennas. Dipole and long wire antennas can also be used with mobile outdoor style auto tuners feeding them in an attic space. In order to really test it i decided to skip the step of a temporary outdoor deployment and just go ahead and put it in to it s final location.

Attics are great locations for indoor antennas. For example you can install a wire dipole in almost any attic space.