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The downspout goes from the terrace to the roof commencing on the first floor balcony, thus being 5 m = 15 ft high; it is fed from the gutter itself which is about 3m long = about 10 ft. It is horizontal (of course) and constitutes some kind of top loading to the spout itself.

SWR can be brought to 1:1.1 on 20m with the 1:3 balun in between.

the arrow points towards the 15 loops of wire around the downspout.

the wire coming in through the basement window frame, into the home made balun which is connected to the FT817 by about 8m = 25 ft RG-58/CU.

The provisional set-up for FT817, laptop HP4150, ATU and an unused AL811 final PA.