Hello, Doug. I have to keep stealth dipoles up as well, and I find that two regular Slinkies, with a 1:1 current balun in the middle on the ceiling of my second-floor shack tune up very well on 40, 30, 20 and 10 meters. I'm sure I'm just warming the clouds, but have made contacts on PSK31 over 1,300 miles away.
I use little plastic clips that attach to my wall with 3M Command strips. These are white strips that hold things on the wall, and you can take them off without hurting the paint. I paid $6 for the Slinkies, about $25 for the balun and $6 for the clips. I got the clips at Target, look for the ones designed to hang Christmas lights. With four slinkies and some room I can talk 600 miles on 80m. Forget trying to communicate with anyone close.... Good luck, and don't let the need for stealth get in the way of fun! --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "doug_helbling" <doug_helbl...@...> wrote: > > > Greetings, all. > > I'm a rather new ham and very recent General class licensee who is very
