Rain Gutter Cb Antenna

Gutter mounted the rtg 27l hustler antenna offers the advantages of a roof mounted cb antenna in an easily installed package.

Rain gutter cb antenna.

Very simple and the system worked for me. It is the rain gutter along the front of a house. Anl switch and pa cb switch. I got this idea about writing about my antenna because i had one once in the condo that worked very well down to about 40 meters.

Pic courtesy of n6cc website. Black 4 4 out of 5 stars 3 816. Rtg27l for sale rtg27l hustler 25 rain gutter cb antenna kit 12 coax cable. Second article on the rain gutter antenna.

Below is a photo of a simple effective and entirely covert hf antenna. First you have to use a tuner. A couple of years ago i had written an article on the use of my rain gutter on my home as my hf antenna. If you have a metal rain gutter on the eave of your house you can mount a car cb antenna on it and using an swr meter adjust it to work but for best results search the net for a cb base station antenna and mount it on a mast so it s at least 9 feet off the ground but the top cannot legally exceed 50 feet.

I ve always fed gutter antennas from the bottom of a downspout using a coax pigtail one end with an so 239 uhf connector same as what s on the back of most ham cb radios center of the coax going to the gutter and braid going to a nearby grounding point of some kind either a ground rod worst case scenario radials better or groundrod with radials best option. Sirio performer 2000 pl 10m cb mobile antenna with gutter mount kit 1 offer from 79 50. Mine was a mfj travel tuner. Unlike gregg s gutter antenna the spout and long horizontal section were made from plastic.

My goods will pay for shipping exchanges back to the customer. These charges are normally collected by the delivering freight shipping company or when you pick item up do not confuse them for additional. It is 80 feet long and off center fed as a windom with a single wire lead in to a tuner. So i just ran an appropriate length of 18 awg speaker wire inside the plastic downspout and horizontal section sealing the ends with waterproof silicone caulk and attached the antenna segment to the main wire of some rg 8 coax while i connected the coax ground braid to buried counterpoise wires.

The rain gutter antenna has a vertical component approximately 25 high and extends horizontally across the roof line for 35.