Attic antenna for Halicrafter S-108

[KB3FFH]

I was handed a Halicrafter S-108 receiver from my brother in law and am thinking about building a slinky dipole for the attic. Don't want to put anything outside. Will this work decent. Thanks

[KS2G]

Practically anything will work reasonably well as a "receive only" antenna with that radio.

Back-in-the-day, using an S-108 as an SWL, I just strung-out a 50-foot "random wire" under the eaves of my house up about 20-feet.  Pulled in lots of signals from both shortwave broadcast stations and ham operators.

So your "Slinky" in the attic will probably be fine.

Some other easy-to-build options can be found here:
http://www.hamuniverse.com/shortwaveantenna.html

All that said, you'd definitely do better with something outside, if that's possible.



73,
Mel - KS2G