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Hey wow, entries already! Good looking antennas! I'm tied up right now also (and am trying to get this yagi finished in the middle of a monsoon), so how about say, the end of June? I won't have the materials for what I have planned until after the weekend anyway. (Quicksilver, one dog...

OK-- Let's do this. A contest for the most unique homebrew 1/4 wave ground plane antenna. We don't need a lot of rules, but here's what I suggest: 1. The antenna can be made of anything, but must be resonant on 27 MHz. 2. The antenna does not have to stay up permanently, but...

Got a break in the rain, had to move fast to try to make the most of it. After trying a couple more things, it was clear the plywood mount for the reflector element just was not going to cut it. So, I did: A 4 foot piece of angle aluminum ¾” x ¾” x 1/8” was used (I wanted 1” x...

Didn't add to the cost since I had a bunch left over from the last boat project-- and allowed me to get away with using exterior ply for the element mounts and mast plate. It lacks only the balun and mast plate now and still feels pretty light. But thanks-- and yeah, if I didn' t already have...

DadGUM this rain!! Maybe I can get it finished by Monday. I did have to back track on the reflector-- to keep the long poles from sagging too much the cord has to put a considerable amount of tension on the poles- which caused a couple of the joints on either side to telescope back into...

Right. I messed around and let my license lapse and didn't realize it until the renewal period was past (I was not on the air during that time), and took all elements in one sitting, including the code. It was my own fault I had to do that, but you take them in order. PSK-31 didn't even...

That was a BIG day for you then! I got my first class phone when I was 16-- before I got my ham ticket, in fact. Unfortunately I didn't know about the lifetime First you could get and I was sent a lifetime General Radiotelephone. Haven't thought about that in years, it's in a box somewhere.