Installing a Ham Radio Antenna

[Cham]

Maybe an "electric fence" around your yard would radiate well? Just use your ham transciever to energize the fence...

Sometimes you have to be creative.

 

[harshness]

Maybe an "electric fence" around your yard would radiate well? Just use your ham transciever to energize the fence...

Have you ever seen an antenna that looked like a fence?

 

[Inclined Orbit]

Yes, a Beverage antenna is a low to the ground, very long wire receive antenna that is directional and commonly set up on pickets like a fence.

Have you ever seen an antenna that looked like a fence?

 

[KE4EST]

Have you ever seen an antenna that looked like a fence?

Yes, also lots of guys use loop antennas.

 

[Cham]

Yes.
You likely have too, just didn't realize it was an antenna.

 

[harshness]

Yes, also lots of guys use loop antennas.

I'm thinking more of the kind of fence that you might see in a manufactured home park where the lot size isn't conducive to a Beverage "installation" (half-wave and up by multiples).

 

[jorgek]

I once stapled a 75 ft long copper wire to the top of a wooden fence fed into an L match. Worked great for a few years. No one ever suspected.