The antennas at home have always needed some experimenting. Mostly due to the fact, that the rf-signal is reflected from the building. So a very nice SWR with an analyzer will CHANGE when the rf-power is turned on.

The triangular antenna is using the TCS80 as a "tuner" in the feed-point. The TCS80 is turned up-side-down. The view is toward NE.

Antennas placed 4m from SW-corner of building. Just outside my room. There is no wire. So this set-up was mostly for UHF-, VHF-bands and HF was by using the SGC-tuner and the helix made on the PVC-tube, at this time pointing upward.
A view off the building from the south. Half way up on the left side the "arm" with antte on the corner are visibel.
Antenna placed 4m from SW-corner of building. In the green box the SGC-tuner. In the other box the duplexer UHF, 2m and HF/6M was followed with a relay to switch between the 6m and HF (SGC-tuner). In the room I also had a relay behind the DX70t.

Antenna placed 4m from SW-corner of the building. After some heavy wet snow.

Antenna now placed at the SW-corner of building. That was after buying the 2 sets of FT897, fp30 and fc30. One set was using the 2 verticals 6m, 2m and 70cm. The other set was using the wire and for vhf/uhf a mobile whip in the windows of "radio"-room (receive only).

In September 2013 I've changed the antennas. The two antennas on the picture above was taken down, and replaced with a Sirio SMA 47/135 a 5/8l on 2m and a short 1/4l on 6m. That was able to work on 70cm also the HF-bands 10m trugh 20m with my tuner LDG at897plus.
A second was placed horizontally out site my room. Beside a mobil DV-mount, placed on bracket made off stainlees steel.


The left is for hf and the right is for the Sirio whip.

Some other pictures of the bracket:



The final mounting off the bracket with antennas on:

Her some picture taken from the livingroom window:

This is a wiev towards west

This isa view towards NW. That is the horisontally mounted Sirio outside my room.

After a renovation off the building in 2012, I did shorten the hf-wire by around 30cm. The noise on 20m went sky high to around s5-9. So I now checked for with "closely" resonance on any hf-bands, it turned out to be close to a perfect quarter wave 20m. The control was made by using my MFJ analyzer.
So a new and longer wire has now been setup. After some calculations on possible length with no "close" resonance on any band, I found out, that making wire around 7.8m wound ok.
SWR was with no POWER from a transmitter. When power put into use. The SWR goes up.
Frequency    SWR
7 1,2
7,2 1
10 5,1
10,15 5,2
14 4,9
14,35 4,8
18,07 4
18,17 3,9
21 2,2
21,45 2,7
24 4
28 4
29 3,8
29,7 3,7
50 3,6
52 2,2
144 2,2
147 2,7
432 1,3
442 1,4


Another antenna experiment:


The measurments are in mm.
I did test a homemade slimjim. I've used that kind before.
Now standing in the midle of my window in a pvc-tube I was able to operate staions with only 5w. The distanse was app. 32km west and app. 45km south. That normally had to be contacted with 50w on the "old" quartervawe.

Hanging in the window. As You can see it is not the most accurate antenna.

The feedpoint.

Feed-point just before it was pulled into the pvc-tube.

Locking the RG58 coax, so it doesn't pull the slinjim down and out.

YET Another antenna experiment:



This is an "Thunder"-antenna, understod in the way, that radio can bee operated, even during a thunderstorm. It consist of the SWR-meter Monacor FS1-5 (an old fra CB time) used as the feed-point. The antenna itselfsis mad from 3mm alumiun rod taken from a griber.

When placed horisontly pointing east-west it works a vhf-FM and a UHF-dstar relay whit the lowes power possibel, on adistance on about 28km.

The rod is just inserted in the pll-plug.


It can also be mounted verticaly. But then it has been more sensitiv to my movment!
The lenght of the antenna is abt. 49cm plus 1,5 cm in bend part.