I got a great idea watching your videos! I live in an HOA! I have a Wolf River coil antenna that works on my front patio. The HOA has not noticed it even though it is in plain sight. I remove it when not in use. I have the same painters pole you are using. I have a 4x4 fence post between me and my neighbor's house. I can mount the pole to the post with conduit clamps from Home Depot . You can run 4 inch bolts thru the post to hold the conduit clamps! I can mount my 4:1 balun near the ground with wire to the first aluminum section to make a Ribakov. antenna. You may want to try this mounting method in your backyard. instead of the metal fence post you are using! That way you will have less guying! This will give you 25 feet of radiating element without any extra whip antenna.
Glad the video gave you some ideas and thanks for the suggestion. I’ll have to look at the 4:1 Balun. I had actually been thinking about something like that. My goal is not to use any guying (haven’t had to use any so far.) just have some sloping radials. That metal fence post works for the moment just for location reasons and it is deep enough it doesn’t move. My radio room is in the front of the house so the coax is already 100 ft. One thing I found about the paint pole is it will take on water so you may have to put a drain hole in the handle at the bottom. Thanks for watching.
I got a great idea watching your videos!
I live in an HOA! I have a Wolf River coil antenna that works on my front patio.
The HOA has not noticed it even though it is in plain sight. I remove it when not in use. I have the same painters pole you are using.
I have a 4x4 fence post between me and my neighbor's house. I can mount the pole to the post with conduit clamps from Home Depot .
You can run 4 inch bolts thru
the post to hold the conduit clamps! I can mount my 4:1 balun near the ground with wire to the first aluminum section to make a Ribakov.
antenna. You may want to try this mounting method in your backyard.
instead of the metal fence post you are using! That way you will have less guying!
This will give you 25 feet of radiating element without any extra whip antenna.
Glad the video gave you some ideas and thanks for the suggestion. I’ll have to look at the 4:1 Balun. I had actually been thinking about something like that. My goal is not to use any guying (haven’t had to use any so far.) just have some sloping radials. That metal fence post works for the moment just for location reasons and it is deep enough it doesn’t move. My radio room is in the front of the house so the coax is already 100 ft. One thing I found about the paint pole is it will take on water so you may have to put a drain hole in the handle at the bottom.
Thanks for watching.