It is 80 feet long and off center fed as a windom with a single wire lead in to a tuner.
Gutter loop antenna.
This is the antenna i have been relegated to use for my hf operating.
Also less interference is created to neighbour s tv etc from cw than ssb.
The best smartuners to use for a rain gutter antenna are the sg 230 sg 231 or the sg 237.
Running two wires at each end of the house can turn this into a horizontal loop.
In fact the downspout has now become my main antenna.
Below is a photo of a simple effective and entirely covert hf antenna.
The smartuner should be mounted as close to the feed point of the rain gutter antenna as possible.
I built variations of this antenna when i lived in several rental homes on hawaii island shortly after getting my novice class amateur radio license back in 1977.
1 two loop heights 2 two house types and 3 several bands.
This hoa buster antenna defeats the rules imposed upon amateur ham radio operators by using existing metal gutters as an antenna and enables external tuners to achieve a near perfect match from 10 80 meters.
I did use rain gutter as antenna and water pipe as ground it worked great from 160 mtr to 10 mtr.
However i recommend cw for such installations.
All are waterproofed and have the tuning range to match most rain gutters.
A couple of years ago i had written an article on the use of my rain gutter on my home as my hf antenna.
I had great time.
Signal reports on 30 and 40 meters my primary bands have been consistently good.
It is the rain gutter along the front of a house.
Mine was a mfj travel tuner.
First you have to use a tuner.
And weaker signal from such set up can be heard better in cw.
Second article on the rain gutter antenna.
Very simple and the system worked for me.
Classic rain gutter height loop elevated on standoffs stylized for emphasis to find out i challenged the rain gutter loop with eznec antenna modeling software.
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.
1 top of mast mount 1 riser 1 eight foot jumper wire with clips 1 alpha match.
The rain gutter antenna has a vertical component approximately 25 high and extends horizontally across the roof line for 35.
This required best case and worst caswe models to encompass most house variables.
Unlike gregg s gutter antenna the spout and long horizontal section were made from plastic.
