Curent Project is getting a magmount Scanner antenna outdoors when I am not allowed an antenna of any description
Posted: 17 Nov 2016, 19:53
OK as the title says.
I live in a housing association property (A 1st floor flat) that was built in 2004 and I have lived here since it was built and completed in december of 2004.
No resident can put an antenna up, of any description outside of the property all our TV and Radio antenna is a communal one.
The couple upstairs got told they had to remove their sky dish that they had fitted (a digital sky dish hardly noticeable) They played hell and said they would remove it if the housing association put in a communal Satellite Dish because they are now paying for a full yearly sky Subscription to all channels on sky and that the Housing Association would have to refund them the "FULL SKY PACKAGE" yearly subscription fee as well as any early contract termination fees if they had to remove the sky dish.
The next week the TV antenna was renewed and now put outside instead of in an attic that none of us could find as well as a brand new 80CM Sky dish and an FM round radio antennae were all being installed.
Anyway this does not help me one bit, because a TV Antenna is no good for a 100kHz to 1300mHz SDR, or is an FM Radio Antenna, or a Satellite Dish for that matter.
So I have embarked on a project on how I can get, at least my Sandpiper Scanning antenna that is currently a mag mount type and covers 25 - 1300mHz, OUTSIDE without them noticing it.
I have come up with a wicked idea where it will basically be attached and Camouflaged into a white PVC drain pipe that is just outside my window, I am still working on fabricating my own fittings etc.
This thing needs to be at least 90% Camouflaged and I am about 70% done working out the fitting and how I am going to camouflage this into the Drain pipe.
As soon as the fittings to the drainpipe and to the antenna have been sorted I then need to spray the whole thing White to blend into the drainpipe as well as any run of coax being painted in sections to blend in with any brickwork.
I will post some photos of the finished product in this thread when done, some will be taken from my own window (where I will be leaning out to fit it) and the rest will be taken from several different angles from outside to see if it is camouflaged enough.
Watch this space.
I am also planing on driving a 4' Grounding rod into the ground just below the drainpipe and running my ground to it. I also then have a good ground for if I decide to add an HF SW antenna hidden outside. or to Earth any other antenna I have indoors.
I live in a housing association property (A 1st floor flat) that was built in 2004 and I have lived here since it was built and completed in december of 2004.
No resident can put an antenna up, of any description outside of the property all our TV and Radio antenna is a communal one.
The couple upstairs got told they had to remove their sky dish that they had fitted (a digital sky dish hardly noticeable) They played hell and said they would remove it if the housing association put in a communal Satellite Dish because they are now paying for a full yearly sky Subscription to all channels on sky and that the Housing Association would have to refund them the "FULL SKY PACKAGE" yearly subscription fee as well as any early contract termination fees if they had to remove the sky dish.
The next week the TV antenna was renewed and now put outside instead of in an attic that none of us could find as well as a brand new 80CM Sky dish and an FM round radio antennae were all being installed.
Anyway this does not help me one bit, because a TV Antenna is no good for a 100kHz to 1300mHz SDR, or is an FM Radio Antenna, or a Satellite Dish for that matter.
So I have embarked on a project on how I can get, at least my Sandpiper Scanning antenna that is currently a mag mount type and covers 25 - 1300mHz, OUTSIDE without them noticing it.
I have come up with a wicked idea where it will basically be attached and Camouflaged into a white PVC drain pipe that is just outside my window, I am still working on fabricating my own fittings etc.
This thing needs to be at least 90% Camouflaged and I am about 70% done working out the fitting and how I am going to camouflage this into the Drain pipe.
As soon as the fittings to the drainpipe and to the antenna have been sorted I then need to spray the whole thing White to blend into the drainpipe as well as any run of coax being painted in sections to blend in with any brickwork.
I will post some photos of the finished product in this thread when done, some will be taken from my own window (where I will be leaning out to fit it) and the rest will be taken from several different angles from outside to see if it is camouflaged enough.
Watch this space.
I am also planing on driving a 4' Grounding rod into the ground just below the drainpipe and running my ground to it. I also then have a good ground for if I decide to add an HF SW antenna hidden outside. or to Earth any other antenna I have indoors.