Magmount for house use

[WQPW689]

I bought a 12" x 12" piece of 28 ga. galvanized sheet metal at Home Depot for about 8 bucks. Threw it on top of a bookcase and it works fine inside with an inexpensive mag mount antenna by my window.

 

[Voyager]

Amazing isn't it, how all of those VHF handhelds have been transmitting and receiving just fine for 40 years, with no 19 inch chunk of metal under them. My TH-F6 hears two repeaters 90 miles away on it's standard "rubber duckie".

In portables, the counterpoise is the chassis of the radio.

And I said above the AC (operating or not) should work fine. I suppose I should clarify that as long as the magnet will hold.