See you on the repeater! 73 Dan KJ5IZK
On Wed, Jun 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM Steve Clark via BVARC <[email protected]> wrote: > Very nice, Dan. Building your own antennas is one of the great pleasures > of ham radio, at least it is for me. > > > > 73, > > Steve > > W5ICR > > > > *From:* BVARC <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Daniel Poirot via > BVARC > *Sent:* Wednesday, June 18, 2025 8:01 AM > *To:* BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB <[email protected]> > *Cc:* Daniel Poirot <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [BVARC] n00b net (On build-your-own-antenna day) > > > > Howdy, y'all, > > > > Yesterday was a fun day in the backyard. I had just finished up a 2 meter > quarter wave ground plane made out of 14 AWG Romex. > > > > Using the formula from studying for my license, I got a radiating element > of ((234 / 146.94) * 12), or 19.1 inches. Cool. > > > > I straightened the wire, clipped the ground elements long, sanded one end > clean, soldered ring terminals from Home Depot to four of them, and screwed > them to the corners of a panel mount BNC. 16 AWG was used for the radiating > element, as the BNC panel mount center pin is for coax and not coat > hangers... > > > > I mounted the antenna to a leftover 5 foot section of 1/2" PVC pipe by > threading my BNC cable through the PVC. I pounded an iron rebar rod (again > Home Depot) into the back yard and threaded the PVC pipe and antenna cable > onto that. Perfect. I am thinking of adding a bare ground wire from the > BNC, out the bottom of the PVC to ground the whole thing. > > > > I was treated to a very clear signal to and from the 146.94 repeater. I > even caught up with Ricki KJ5KUX. We chatted about our shared next > project, the QRPguys 10m End Fed Half Wave! Ricki! Build this in a big > flower pot on the balcony! ;-) > > > > Noticeably absent was the usual background static on both my TIDRADIO H3 > and Explorer QRZ-1. > > > > Build your own antenna! > > 73 > > Dan KJ5IZK > ________________________________________________ > Brazos Valley Amateur Radio Club > > BVARC mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.bvarc.org/mailman/listinfo/bvarc_bvarc.org > Publicly available archives are available here: > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >
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