Field Day Antenna

[NQ6U]

Finished up my new Field Day antenna well ahead of the actual date for once. It's a wire Moxon beam for 15m and the whole thing can be carried and erected by one person. I wouldn't want to lug it up a mountain or anything but since most of the weight is in the surplus fiberglass camouflage netting supports I'm using for masts, it would be easy to shed weight by using a pair of lighter poles.

Here's a picture of it collapsed for transport:



It stands about 20 feet tall when it's set up, and is about 17 feet long by 6 feet wide. That's about 6m x 5m x 2m for those of you in the more civilized countries.

[W4GPL]

What are you doing talking about ham radio stuff!? We don't do that here.. :-P

[NQ6U]

What are you doing talking about ham radio stuff!? We don't do that here.. :-P

Oh, okay, sorry. How about this:

"Obama is a socialist Muslim atheist from Kenya"?

[NQ6U]

By the way the whole thing cost less than $40 including the mast sections and old Bencher 1:1 balun, the latter of which I bought on eBay for six bucks.

[W4GPL]

By the way the whole thing cost less than $40 including the mast sections and old Bencher 1:1 balun, the latter of which I bought on eBay for six bucks.

How much of that $40 was Obama's outrageous taxes?! ;)

Neat though. Let us know how it performs..

[KC2UGV]

Where did you get the camo poles at? Or, are those something else for the mast?

[NQ6U]

Where did you get the camo poles at? Or, are those something else for the mast?

There was a local guy selling them for a buck each a few years back. Unfortunately, they're harder to find nowadays. These are what I had left over.

[X-Rated]

Moxons are great antennas on my antenna software. Will this be horizontally polarized or vertical? At what height? And my final question, will this antenna withstand the new lawful federal domestic wiretapping actions since there is wire involved?

[NQ6U]

How much of that $40 was Obama's outrageous taxes?! ;)

$39.98

Neat though. Let us know how it performs..

I tested it out this weekend. Non-scientific, seat-of-the-pants measurements seem to demonstrate at least some gain over a dipole and the Moxon's characteristic high F/B ratio.

[NQ6U]

Moxons are great antennas on my antenna software. Will this be horizontally polarized or vertical? At what height? And my final question, will this antenna withstand the new lawful federal domestic wiretapping actions since there is wire involved?

I became a big fan of Moxons after a fellow ARC member and I used 1/2" copper pipe to build one for 20m two years ago. We took it to FD and despite the fact that it resembled the aftermath of a boiler explosion, it rocked!

It's going to be horizontally polarized and as far as the wiretapping thing goes, they can have my antenna when they pry it from my cold, RF burned fingers.