I have a weather radio with a telescoping antenna. But it also has a jack for an external antenna. The jack is a RCA jack, which is not real common for an antenna connector, but it will work.
I live in an all metal covered home, so I dont get good reception indoors. My goal is to make something real simple, from stuff I have laying around, that I can connect to the rain gutter outside and run some coax inside the house.
I have lots of tv coax, and a RCA plug. I have some plastic material which should work for the attachment center piece. I'm thinking of just attaching two bars, one on each side, using something like coat hanger wire, or even some heavy #8 solid copper wire.
These radios operate at 162.400, 162.425, 162.450, 162.475, 162.500,
162.525, and 162.550 MHz.How long should these wires be? Or should I make it like a bow tie shaped antenna? I might even have a broken tv antenna in my junk pile that I can salvage some of the cross bars and even the insulators. (got to look in my scrap metal pipe and see if it's still there). But once again, I need to know the length.
OR - Maybe there is something even more simple that I can rig up.
Suggestions????