Big Station...Small Room...

[samskip]

Yea, setting up a dorm room HF station is turning out to be hell.... Fellow floormates yelling to stop coming through their TV's and PC Speakers, no room for ANYTHING as you can tell from the picture, no places for antenna's outside (yet, until I devise an evil plan ) My roommate complaining as well about the **Censored** and coax all over, the noise from the radio , and he cant listen to music while im on the radio...


120 watts pumping out on SSB and about 60 watts AM, 50 watts FM...

This is a bigger headache than my exams and homework!

Only thing not in the pic is my Yaesu HT I carry around my campus....

[KI4MSJ]

Looks like your using a 706. Great radio, don't know why you would be interfering with the electronics. What frequencies are you operating on? If just two meters you shouldn't have any problems. Somehow you need to get an antenna outside. The RF from the antenna is not good for interference and RF exposure. If your also using HF, you can try a dipole antenna. There is also a window sill antenna that is HF and two meters. I can't remember who makes it. I think it might be MFJ. Good luck and don't give up. 73

[drdx]

Good effort there. Make yourself a set of counterpoises(1/4 wavelength tuned ground leads) to cover the ground issue and that might get you out of the consumer electronic devices. You need something that will be an RF outlet there anyway. Then again, it might just be overload. In the antenna department, hf wise, you can always get a decent antenna tuner and start trying gutters, window frames, ac ducting, etc., anything you can feed and tune in a effort to have a built in invisible antenna. -drdx