[462ron]

KFOQAL, Here’s the way I was able to get a long wire antenna for my radios with little work, maybe an option for you if you have a landline phone. My phone service line coming to my home has 4 wires in it, 2 of which are for the phone, the other 2 maybe for a second phone service which I don’t have. I use those extra wires as my long wire antenna. I connect those 2 together, then through a .001mfd cap, connect the other end to the 2 unused wires that go to the rest of the phone jacks in my home. I estimate the length of the phone service wire going up the side of my home plus the distance to the pole on the street to be about 60’-70’ approximately. Now I can use an old phone plug wire and use the 2 wires that don’t carry the phone service and attach it to my radio and plug into any phone Jack in my house and have an instant 70’ long wire antenna and it works great. I don’t have an HOA but I don’t have anyway to get up in the air that high or anything on my property to tie the other end to so this was easy to do with little work and works great. Hope this would be an option for you!

Ron