camouflage antenna

[niceguy71]

I know anytime I try to hide something or get it to blend in.... it always sticks out like a sore thumb.... hard to see in the picture but I painted my Shakespeare Big Stick sky blue... the color is dead on Sky blue...... so I thought it was a great idea, one so the fiberglass sitting in the sun may be protected and two to make it not stick out as much..... but that pretty sky blue is sure going to show on grey over cast days....... we'll see what it looks like in the air this week.

 

[KB4MSZ]

Does this make it a "fair weather" antenna?

 

[wtp]

paint it chrome and say the flag blew off.
that is just so they don't think it is even an antenna.

 

[prcguy]

I've cammo painted a few antennas here and there. Here is a 43ft HF vertical with autotuner stuck under a Home Depot bucket. The antenna was shiny aluminum and I did a cammo paint job to blend it and the bucket into the forest. You could see the orange bucket from about a block away and after the paint job it and the antenna blended into the background pretty well.

This antenna sits about 125ft from a house and about 75ft into the forest. In the summer months when the vegetation is thick I waded out into the forest to do some maintenance and couldn't find the stupid thing. Turns out I was just 6ft from it and couldn't even see it.



Here is a white fiberglass roof mounted antenna at the same location before and after cammo paint. You just have to study the background and choose something that will break up the straight lines and blend in. For a sky blue CB antenna maybe some puffs of light and dark grey here and there to break up the vertical lines.

 

[niceguy71]

I've cammo painted a few antennas here and there. Here is a 43ft HF vertical with autotuner stuck under a Home Depot bucket. The antenna was shiny aluminum and I did a cammo paint job to blend it and the bucket into the forest. You could see the orange bucket from about a block away and after the paint job it and the antenna blended into the background pretty well.

This antenna sits about 125ft from a house and about 75ft into the forest. In the summer months when the vegetation is thick I waded out into the forest to do some maintenance and couldn't find the stupid thing. Turns out I was just 6ft from it and couldn't even see it.

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Here is a white fiberglass roof mounted antenna at the same location before and after cammo paint. You just have to study the background and choose something that will break up the straight lines and blend in. For a sky blue CB antenna maybe some puffs of light and dark grey here and there to break up the vertical lines.

that is truly amazing!!!! great work PRCGUY...... my neighbors are all great and the closest one is 500 or 600 feet away... one neighbor saw me testing the placement of the antenna and put his up! turns out he is a licensed ham and just didn't have anyone to talk to so he had everything in storage... another neighbor saw us talking out by the mailbox a few days later and asked what we were talking about so we said were putting CB antenna's up, he smiles and show us a microphone in his truck we look in and he has a huge radio under the dash.... he said he can tune in CB band... said he usually only uses it when he goes hunting in Maine... he smiled and said I'll go home and screw my antenna on ...small world... by the way I was really only painting it so the fiberglass wouldn't deteriorate from the sun... but if I had to paint it I may as well blend it in so I picked Rust oleum sky blue.... but now you really got me thinking

 

[GlobalNorth]

I use haze gray on my 2 meter 'glas antenna. I live on a hill top and it is at the far end of the property and it tends to disappear from view.in many sky conditions.

 

[niceguy71]

I use haze gray on my 2 meter 'glas antenna. I live on a hill top and it is at the far end of the property and it tends to disappear from view.in many sky conditions.

if the blue doesn't look like the sky and drives me crazy.... I'll try the Haze Gray, thanks... I live in New England... 6 months of the year is a little gray.. the other 6 months are a beautiful blue sky.... we'll see how it works out