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Okay, I suppose you mean Sierra Hotel India Tango, but whatever... Congrats on the General. Now you can build some seriously big antennas. :-) - Jef

Jef., thanks! You are the Sam Ham In Town! FCC now shows my General class! wooooot! Anyway........... Next time I pull it down I will redo the choke.... for now I am just waiting for the next net so

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10 tight winds around the boom, non-overlapping, should make a good choke for this band. - Jef

J pole in a tree is the next one on the list. Just need to acquire some robust aluminum angle bracket.... -- KK6VHH - Joshua piratesinteepees.org youtube.com/piratesinteepees

Hey Jef, thanks!!!!!! I have been wondering about that since I started this build and kept forgetting to ask! So this will be similar to existing baulin but just wrapped around the boom instead,

Joshua - Very nice to see someone putting this kind of effort into antenna building (and experimenting.) You could probably make a neater, and somewhat more effective choke if you coiled the coax

Soooo cool! Thanks for all the photos and info/insight everyone! I really like the hairpin match... looks much cleaner than the baulin I ended up redoing my baulin with some longer and thicker coax

Oh, and it's a good idea to form a choke at the feedpoint with several turns of coax tightly wrapped together around the boom, to reduce the inevitable common-mode current you'll get due to feeding a

Greg - At work so gotta keep this brief. The hairpin, or beta match, has some advantages in this application—mainly that it is symmetrical so it doesn't distort the pattern as a gamma match would at

Hi Josh, Here are pics of the hairpin match and whatever the coax match is called. Good luck with yours! 73, Rob KM6YKX

Hi Jef, Thanks for the photo on the Hairpin match. To fill in a detail, the instruction text linked to specifies the length of the wire at 5 inches, though it doesn't say if that's the

Here's a closeup of the hairpin match on the one I built:

Joshua - Back in January 2015 we held an antenna-building party at my place and six of us built "tape measure" 3-element Yagis for 2 meters. Quick and easy to make, and the flexible elements fold up

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Joshua - Nice work. Keep in mind that the length of the driven elements (plural) should each be a quarter wave at the geometric mean of the frequency range of interest. It's not the tip to tip length

Hi Carl! Thanks! I would love to do a presentation :) I have more parts and will be building an Open Stub j-pole and play with some gamma match designs too. Such a fun way to learn! -- KK6VHH -