CHAMELEON EMCOMM-II-V2

[dbljay7542]

Good day all,
I purchased the CHAMELEON EMCOMM-II-V2 antenna. I am thinking about stringing it above my house. It will be about 25 feet above the ground and about 5 feet above the roof line. Does anyone see issues with this? Any suggestions? Any help at all would be appreciated. Thanks in advance and 73 all!

 

[K6GBW]

There’s a good chance you will get noise from inside the house. There are so many electronics inside houses these days it’s just likely. I found a regular old dipole to be one of the easiest and best performing antennas you can put up. Less noise, less common mode and more power getting out into the air. I don’t have any trees so I cemented a metal fence post into the foundation and then used pipe to pipe clamps to make a twenty foot mast. A 40 meter antenna, even at this low height works better than any end fed I ever tried.

 

[dbljay7542]

OK, so new plan. How about I use it as a sloper? Run it from a high feed point to a lower termination point. It will be oriented East/West.

 

[K6GBW]

The orientation isn't really going to matter unless you get it up about 45-65 feet. Below that it's going to be omni directional on the lower bands. My experience with these types of antennas is that they do better when the transformer is up high, and the wire is either horizontal or sloping down. Basically, get it up as high as you reasonably can for best performance.