The Challenging Life of Urban Hams

摘要

Growing up in rural Louisiana, I was spoiled by open spaces and lots of land between houses. As a teen, I had an antenna farm that included longwire antennas, a homebrew Quad on 10, 15, and 20m, a full-sized 20m beam that I built with aluminum tubing, and a steerable 2 m array made of a few dozen coat hangers. Today, living in a condo in a suburb of Boston, setting up and using a high frequency (HF) rig and antenna system is a real challenge.