[karc] Re: Expedient antenna build!
- From: les lindstrom <les.lindstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: freelist <karc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 22:05:01 -0400
A definite article here. See what you can do with little or nothing!
Les Lindstrom
VE3KFS/CIW650
Kingston
613 634 4247
> Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 20:49:56 -0400
> Subject: [karc] Expedient antenna build!
> From: ve3kgc@xxxxxxxxx
> To: karc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Hi all,
> Glad I was able to participate in tonight's net all the way from wet and
> cold Petawawa! I've uploaded two of the better pictures of my antenna to my
> Google Plus wall, and set the privacy to Public. Hopefully that should
> allow everyone access to see them.
>
> If I'm doing this right, the link should be:
>
> https://plus.google.com/+LarissaReise
>
> Anyway, it's a full wave dipole made of metal industrial pallet strapping I
> stole from the garbage can, paracord (technically all-cotton "550" cord)
> and blue duct tape. Because that's what I had on hand. The coax is
> commercially-produced and terminates in ring connectors - handy! All I
> travelled with was the coax, my Baofeng and a specialized Baofeng adapter
> (female mini-SMA to SO-259)
>
> Apparently my signal into the repeater was a bit better with this antenna
> than last week with the rubber ducky. It was strong enough that I had no
> problem using my iPhone and IRLP-Me's DTMF dialler to get into our
> repeater! (First try! Assaf will recall the struggles I had last week...)
>
> I was following along the net until 1955 when the IRLP timeout kicked me
> (because I hadn't keyed up in 20min or so) and was unable to rejoin because
> "the destination node is in use locally."
>
> Overall I'm super pleased with this experiment. It took me just over 20 min
> to build from scratch - I borrowed a ruler (of course I hadn't even brought
> a tape measure...) and got someone with tin snips to cut the metal
> strapping where I marked it (because I also forgot to bring my wire
> stripper/cutters). I used a partly filled Gatorade bottle to heave the
> works into a tree. The extra piece of paracord, coming off the top of the
> antenna at an angle and attached to the coax, was just there to try to keep
> the feedline coming off at a 90° angle or close to it, which it did. The
> whole affair was light enough that once heaved into a tree, I didn't even
> need to secure the heaving line - it just stayed nicely in place.
>
> 73 de VE3KGC!
>
>
> --
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>
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