Since we dont have a thread really started or dedicated to home brew anything in our section of the forum, i though we should start one. Yes yes, i know that there are probably mile long threads in other portions of this forum....but this is for group interest type stuff.
Since the DONGLE is all the rage and i purchased one, and im cheap enough to not want to spend more than the dongle on its antenna; i decided to go searching for home brew wide band antennas. This initially started by looking into fractal antennas and all sorts of other cheap and weird things. When you can make a discone out of flashing material or coat hangers with a wooden insulator, it just makes things too easy.:blink:
Heres a link to a DISCONE CALCULATOR.
Online Calculator .:. Dimensions of a Discone Antenna
moxon beam calculator software
http://www.moxonantennaproject.com/design.htm
yagi calc site
http://www.k7mem.com/Electronic_Notebook/antennas/yagi_vhf.html
erp calc
http://www.csgnetwork.com/antennaecalc.html
hex beam info
http://www.leoshoemaker.com/hexbeambyk4kio/general.html
j pole calc
http://www.hamuniverse.com/jpole.html
tape measure yagis (where i found, and showed a canyon lake-tard how to build these)
http://theleggios.net/wb2hol/projects/rdf/tape_bm.htm
http://www.g6hoq.com/documents/2m tape measure yagi instructions.pdf
Since the DONGLE is all the rage and i purchased one, and im cheap enough to not want to spend more than the dongle on its antenna; i decided to go searching for home brew wide band antennas. This initially started by looking into fractal antennas and all sorts of other cheap and weird things. When you can make a discone out of flashing material or coat hangers with a wooden insulator, it just makes things too easy.:blink:
Heres a link to a DISCONE CALCULATOR.
Online Calculator .:. Dimensions of a Discone Antenna
moxon beam calculator software
http://www.moxonantennaproject.com/design.htm
yagi calc site
http://www.k7mem.com/Electronic_Notebook/antennas/yagi_vhf.html
erp calc
http://www.csgnetwork.com/antennaecalc.html
hex beam info
http://www.leoshoemaker.com/hexbeambyk4kio/general.html
j pole calc
http://www.hamuniverse.com/jpole.html
tape measure yagis (where i found, and showed a canyon lake-tard how to build these)
http://theleggios.net/wb2hol/projects/rdf/tape_bm.htm
http://www.g6hoq.com/documents/2m tape measure yagi instructions.pdf
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