Where NOT to place a transmitter

Where NOT to place an FM antenna, and other equipment. (88–108mhz).

 1 Near a busy road (where there are too many prying eyes).

 2 Don't hang it from a tree (trees absorb RF and effect SWR).

 3 Make it out of aluminium (not wire).

 4 A plain old dipole is useless, use a folded di-pole.

 5 Make sure your tape player doesn't stick, as it is most annoying to hear dead air every hour, till it starts working again.

 6 Make sure your coax is well hidden, as little sods use it as a swing.

 7 Look out for Park Rangers/Gamekeepers, they think you are poaching, well you are of course, listeners from other stations.

 8 Try not to go onto private land, saying that there is VERY little land that is not owned by someone.

 9 Check your car battery condition, as Bon Scott starts to sound like Lee Marvin (Wandrin Star) or that bloke in the Crash Test Dummies.

10 Check your antenna match,especially when one leg of the di-pole falls off.

All of the above may lead to the ultimate downfall of your transmitter, or at least it's PA transistors.

[Radio Fab Engineer Geoff Hutton]