Another Home brew 6 meter antenna
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Was not much going on at home today. So I was in the shack on 20 meters.
And looking at my home brew 6 meter rig when it dawned on me. I need a good antenna for this. So I grabbed my calculator, tape measure and a pile of tubing. Did this on the fly. Just wanted to see what I could come up with. Sort of an old school antenna. The elements are from old cb antennas. The clamps are from a discount store. The aluminum angle pieces came from exess door frames. Boom- 1 1/2 X 16 Elements- 5' X 3/4 with tapered down tubes. Ref= 115 1/2 in Driven= 111 in D1 = 106 1/2 in D2 = 102 in D3 = 97 1/2 in D4 = 93 in Spacing is 34 1/2 inches all but the last director. It is 45 inches. Feed: Gamma Match Tube is 14 inches. Center conductor from RG-8 is 15 inches. Gamma is made but not yet installed. Will install in the morning and start testing |
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And the finished product.
Mounted about 4.5 feet above the homebrew 10 meter beam. Now the wait for a band opening! |
I hope you are grounding it all as you go. Man that is such a lightning target, I hate to see you get hit again, and lose it all. Pray for the best.
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Nice design Buddy, the next thing to do would be to put up a ground if you haven't. Either that or make sure your coax's in the station are disconnected when it's not in use!
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