We put it up on the roof this afternoon. I think it looks great! The neighbors have not yet risen up in opposition to the new skyhook. My family thinks it cool that I can spin it around. I have it pointed at Europe and I notice a big difference. I’ve worked F5LIW, OT4A, YL2BJ, F5BBD. Lots of fun.
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Of course Bill, the neighbours will not see it as the thing of great beauty that we know it is.
That chimney is a great skyhook for a sloper or inverted delta loop! Perhaps even a horizontal loop over the parameter of the yard… 73 pa1zz
When you have robbed the sky of all the radio waves with it – They will complain. From the darkness of the photographs it has already started to draw in all the visible light from the sky.
Bill, how is it fixed to the roof. Some more photos required please? 73 Nigel M0NDE
Rogier: I thought about building a tilt-over mast, but that would have been complicated and difficult. Nigel: It is fixed to the roof with 9 wood screws at the base of the tripod. Scroll down to the picture of the tripod and you will see where the screws go.
Tony: “A thing of beauty” is a phrase that hams often seem to mutter when their beam antenna is put in place. John, EI7BA, used that phrase. I agree. But it is definitely “in the eye of the beholder.” 73 Bill
Bill this looks like a suspended Rhombic of sorts I can’t make out the feed point clearly or what you have opposite. I would suggest however that at that height you would be getting rather a lot of interference from the metalic parts of the antenna and from the roof . Nice job though and thanks for posting