PCS-Electronics

What effect would painting have upon a 1/4 wave ground plane antenna, or any antenna for that matter? I want to use a light blue acrylic lacquer to help camouflage my antenna against the sky. It would also help against corrosion. Let me know of any problems, thanks!

I read most of the posts, including that one. And I'm not as ignorant as to expect to place any rf equipment next to my neighbors antenna and not expect some repurcussions... I was wondering if somehow harmonics were being created by the antenna. Especially seeing as how I didn't have this problem ...

Will filters help with this problem? And, I'm assuming that before with the other antennas I wasn't causing as much interference because the antennas were pushing most of my output back, hence the high swr's with those. Correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks again!

When I first started setting up my equipment I used a shitty radio shack discone antenna untuned with a 2:1+ swr and got a 5 mile radius with my 20 watt transmitter. I moved on to an even shittier radio shack yagi style antenna used for fm recievers and used a 75 to 300 ohm transformer, with I'm ...