Do you want to make a simple HF antenna using nothing but coax? Today I speak with Tim G5TM as he shares his experiences on building HF antennas, running portable, mobile and the fun to be had during the Sporadic E season. These HF antennas are simple to build and an easy way to get on the air!
I cannot support using up meter after meter of coax by stripping off the shield. Just strip back a few cm from the end, and then solder on some plain vanilla 16ga copper stranded for the radiator. Will save you big bucks on coax. I would also recommend the below calculator by ON4AA for the choke design: https://www.hamwaves.com/qoil/en/index.html My flowerpot for 6m is doing very well this Es season, SWR around 1:1.2 at 50.313. 8 turns of RG58 on a 2" PVC gives me over 2k ohms of choking for less than 2m of coax. Also lets me mow the lawn without moving radials every weekend!
Too much talk, not enough antenna and construction pics for my taste. Also, agree with KT5WB above, no need for all the stripping unless you want to double back the shield to simulate a true coaxial dipole. But either way, they work E-Skip pleasantly.
Oh no. We're not going down that path again? Please, let us not comment on "the goofy looking presenter" and so forth.
If the most people have to whinge about is a thumbnail of someone pointing or there is "too much talking", then I look forward to watching (and critiquing) the videos you produce. Hayden has taken the time to put out lots of great content on his channel - no one is forcing anyone to "click play". As mother used to say..."if you've got nothing nice (or constructive) to say....probably best to zip it". Thanks for the interesting content on your channel @VK7HH . I especially like the video on the DX Commander antenna & the microwave stuff you've done. I have zero experience with microwave and found your videos to be very informative. Hayden gives up his spare time to make videos on a subject we're all interested in and doesn't deserve picky sniping from the side of the stage like the two cranky old guys on the Muppet show. This sort of critique and nitpicking of a guy good enough to spend his spare time producing this content to help others, is not really in the spirit of the amateur radio hobby in my humble opinion. Craig VK3CRG
I agree. If you want to be a turd, go lay in the yard. Otherwise stay off of Youtube if it bothers a person too much. This is one thing I hate about posting on QRZ. There are always a few...
Very interesting idea. Many years ago I built a 10 meter version of this. But it did not seem to work so well. I believe it was because I didn't quite understand how to make the choke. Today I will build the 6 meter version discussed in this video. 6 is becoming active this summer and I look forward to trying this design out. Thanks for taking the time to create the video.
His content helped me avoid the video. And I appreciate that! It's a shame people don't edit things more smartly, the content is lost in the unwanted jumble.
Thank you...in spite of all the angry hams who I'm certain do very little, or absolutely nothing, to pass on some thoughts to better our hobby.
