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HF aerial - apartment block walls?

  • 20-07-2019 10:02pm
    #1
    podgeandrodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭


    My brother has a HF aerial for ham radio - about 23ft tall - see photo in family house.

    He's house hunting - and from what we gather apartment complexes would not allow aerials.

    Not a lot of properties out there that suit the setup of such an aerial.

    Dunno what my question really is, just if there are other experiences about how people have sorted out getting properties and installing an antenna like this...
    Thanks

    https://imgur.com/a/0InssN3


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  • #2
    Ubbquittious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,256 ✭✭✭Ubbquittious


    It is hard to know really. Shtick it up and wait till someone complains about it. Most places you will be grand but there's always the chance there is a grumpy old man in an armchair with nothing to do residing in one of the other apartments and he is probably on the residents association because that's his only social outlet for the week.


    Even if there is some rule in the rulebook against it there is a good chance the fella who wrote it moved on and nobody gives a fiddler's anymore


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,179 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Not many management companies will allow you install an aerial especially if he tells them it's for radio they'll most likely tell him to use tuneinradio lol.

    He'd have to seek permission and get it in writing but if someone complains he could be told to get it down.

    But he can us his radio mobile, get a portable antenna , load up the car and head to the beach, hills etc. Loop antennas or portable verticles or an end fed long wire and 20 meter spiderbeam.

    Wire antennas are great if he can hide it. Be better outside of course.

    Even in a housing estate with back garden you can get someone to moan and complain but at least he has a better chance and a better chance of installing a wire antenna which can be much less noticeable.

    Apartments and Housing estates will make reception noisy though with all the modern electric junk emitting mostly illegal harmful interference. Again one of the beauties of mobile/portable operation.


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