Where would a counterpoise wire tie into my gutter antenna system at the gutter at the pass thru or at the antenna tuner.
Using gutters as a counterpoise.
A piece of 22 stranded hookup wire runs from the transmatch to the downspout and is attached with a sheet metal screw.
It was really resonant at 20 meters and higher.
I use my downspout like a random wire antenna using a commercial transmatch.
That s what i m thinking.
Box gutters are valley like troughs at the edges of roofs which are concealed in appearance and don t draw attention from the beauty of the house.
I fed the gutter outside our window and laid a counterpoise on the apartment floor.
Worked europe easily with no local rfi that i know of hi.
I found enough money in the budget to by an sg 230 remote tuner which i plan to mount on the garage wall.
As for myself i do have a house in a row with a so called stamp garden of 14 by 5 5 mtrs but i am using the other dimension of the garden the unlimmeted height of it hi hi.
Rhe gutters don t work well as a radiator due to these water running pipes but they are a very good counterpoise to the single wire antenna.
I ran a open length of coax cable to the aluminum gutter and to a screw at the base no ground was used as this caused noise on the feed line.
The concrete foundation comes up about 3ft from the ground before the vinyl siding starts.
Grounding the gutter might help safety wise but the downlead to the ground will have inductance and this will keep some level of voltage on the gutter ends anyway.
Good luck getting an earth ground here in phoenix az.
Counterpoise will improve your receive its the other side of the antenna.
The whole length was close to 125 feet in an inverted u shaped.
Built in gutters also called box or hidden gutters are actually a type of rain gutter and can replace the latter especially when the conspicuous appearance of the rain gutter is the main issue.
I might get away with a counterpoise wire running along the perimeter of the house.
I think that using it as a counterpoise that close to your wire probably won t do anything useful for you.
Just a thought and another question.
I made my first european contacts on 15 or 17 meters using the gutter antenna.
I need a ground system or counterpoise.