I was listening to a local net tonight, and after checking in I was listening and built this in 20 minutes. Radiator is 6.38" and radials are 6.70". This little ground plane is a screamer, and locks in the local 440 repeater about 7 miles away with no problem. I'll try it in the morning and see how many repeaters I can hit while folks are going to work. Oh, SWR is 1.1:1 across the band without any trimming, even with the hanging eye on the radiator. I just left it rather than screw it up.
I hung the 2 meter big brother to this one in the attic today, and I need to get some coax and a bag of PL259s tomorrow to run 3 antennas from the attic to the basement office that will be my shack. Then I need to build a 10 meter inverted "V" dipole so I can start using my Ten-Tec Omni D. I plan on starting out by building the dipole on the 5/12 trusses in the garage attic.
I hung the 2 meter big brother to this one in the attic today, and I need to get some coax and a bag of PL259s tomorrow to run 3 antennas from the attic to the basement office that will be my shack. Then I need to build a 10 meter inverted "V" dipole so I can start using my Ten-Tec Omni D. I plan on starting out by building the dipole on the 5/12 trusses in the garage attic.
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