Anybody ever tried hooking up to the top-rails of their cyclone fence for a receiving antenna?
I've got about 160 feet of fence surrounding the yard, with additional sections going off the backside on both ends for god knows how far (backs of the neighboring yards).
As an experiment, I'm thinking about tapping into both ends of the section surrounding this yard with normal insulated wire, just what I need to reach them, in a sort of loop configuration through the section surrounding the yard. Feedline would be 300 ohm into an antenna tuner (or possibly a dual coax using the center-wires only, to try to shield away some of the noise around here). Of course it wouldn't be an actual loop with all the extra sections going off the back-corners for as far as they may be electrically continuous..
Although not high off the ground, if the rails are well-connected enough, it would end up being a hell of a large.... metal thing, sort of like an antenna.... Not sure what the grounding effect would be, with all the support rails going into the ground, but it seems like a very large surface area in a sort of fishbone pattern for receiving signals....
OK, so... Who's tried it? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Since a falling pine tree finished off my other antenna, I'm looking into some other things, but the possible antenna support situation isn't very good in this yard-- everything high is too close to the house.
Ideally I'd like a wire loop in the air, but that would be difficult here without a new bunch of "eyesore masts"...