ANOTHER NEW ANTENNA, HOME BREWED

[VE3FMC]

Will proceed with a 2 element yagi for 12 meters. It will be constructed from an old TA-33JR which I removed from the tower yesterday.

Nothing beats building antennas when the temperatures are below freezing in the morning!

[N2CHX]

Cool! I wanna see pics. Don't freeze your arse off!

[PA5COR]

Antenna's homebrewed only work when made in a blizzard, temps far below 0 and set up in the same weather.
;)

[NQ6U]

It's a well-known fact that the performance of a home-brew antenna varies inversely to how good the weather is during the construction/erection phase.

[VE3FMC]

I am going to have to hold off on building it today. Too sunny and currently 40 F. Far too warm to be home brewing antennas. :lol:

[VE3FMC]

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It's up and the first contact was with a station in Scotland on CW. The band was not in the best shape. Late this afternoon I worked a couple of stations in Alaska with JT65.

[KC2UGV]

Damn! Nice homebrew work :)

[VE3FMC]

Damn! Nice homebrew work :)

Well it was pretty easy to build because I used an old TA-33. So the driven element was there and so was the reflector. I just had to add to each element to make it work for 12 meters after removing the traps.

[N8YX]

I'm going to do something for 15/12/11/10 one of these days. Am thinking seriously along the lines of a log-yag for the reflector/driven element side and a squashed quad construct for the directors.

Just to see if it can be done.

That said, nice work on the conversion. I built many a 10, 12 and 15M antenna from discarded CB yagis.

[VE3FMC]

I'm going to do something for 15/12/11/10 one of these days. Am thinking seriously along the lines of a log-yag for the reflector/driven element side and a squashed quad construct for the directors.

Just to see if it can be done.

That said, nice work on the conversion. I built many a 10, 12 and 15M antenna from discarded CB yagis.

It is a solid antenna. I just wish I could get it up higher. But that tower on the utility shed is not too far from the 4500 volt feeder lines. I'd rather not extend it any higher. If for some reason it folded over at least it will not reach the hydro lines as it is now. I could guy it I suppose.

I always laugh when I read posts from guys who start off with "I got this 11 meter antenna, can I use it on 10 meters?" :snicker:

[VE3FMC]

Yesterday I added a 17 M ground plane to the farm. It is elevated 16 feet off the ground, 4 sloping ground radials. Made a few contacts to Europe while using it this morning.

I am running out of projects to build. May attempt a mag loop but without the high priced vacuum capacitor.