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VE6GPO’s adventures in connecting with the world and beyond

Attic dipole, 20 m

Finally, time has come to put up the antenna and start having some on-air conversations. It’s nice living in the inner city and having only 7 minutes of the walking commute. Drawback is that I don’t have too much space for the antenna farm 🙁 Our house is one of those so-called ‘infills’ where the developer split the standard 50′ lot in two, so we ended up with 25′ wide piece of land. It doesn’t help being on the corner lot either, with high voltage lines running on poles parallel to the house. So, antenna tower is out of question and I decided on the hidden, attic antenna.

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