Antenna

John Doe's Dipole Antenna.

My Setup (I assume, if you build this you know what you are doing, anyway):

4mm Brass rod (for indoors it should be ok and is easy to solder) from hardware store. Carefully enlarge 4mm hole in Socket. Move drill inside socket a bit, until rod can be moved with some force. Unstrip Coax inner lead for some cm and fold the shield back. Wrap inner lead 2 Times around very End of rod. Heat with a gas torch, add Solder. Be careful, the heat will make the socket material soft.

I plucked 3 rubber feet from a broken Ethernet switch and sticked them to the bottom of: http://www.ebay.de/itm/331727191044 But that thing really is a bit on the ultra heavy side. Use some reasonable weight to hold your Antenna straight up. Glue it all up with a huge amount of strong, elastic glue (I used Pattex Kraftkleber, but i am sure you have equal stuff in the anglophone world), so that the shield touches the Steel plate and coax inner lead/brass rod do not, which i assured wit