Wanting to do something quick, and just so happen to have a thrift store walker laying around, I whipped up this 2m Moxon.
It's pouring down rain continuously today, so I checked the SWR match inside my 12'x12' workshop. 1.5:1 was a little below the band at 136 Mhz, so I cut a smidgen off its width and tried again Got a usable SWR of 1.5:1 where I wanted it in mid band and decided finer tuning would wait.
Hooked it up to my Baofeng HT and called toward the south of me. Fifteen miles away a ham friend came back to me. He's vertical, I'm horizontal. He has a read with static. I hold it vertical and the static cleans up. I climb the ladder so the antenna is now 15' high. Horizontal he reports clear clean audio no S units on his radio meter (IC 746). Vertical he reports two S units, clear and clean.
It's still raining so I pack it in for the day.
Homer
KG5SQX
It's pouring down rain continuously today, so I checked the SWR match inside my 12'x12' workshop. 1.5:1 was a little below the band at 136 Mhz, so I cut a smidgen off its width and tried again Got a usable SWR of 1.5:1 where I wanted it in mid band and decided finer tuning would wait.
Hooked it up to my Baofeng HT and called toward the south of me. Fifteen miles away a ham friend came back to me. He's vertical, I'm horizontal. He has a read with static. I hold it vertical and the static cleans up. I climb the ladder so the antenna is now 15' high. Horizontal he reports clear clean audio no S units on his radio meter (IC 746). Vertical he reports two S units, clear and clean.
It's still raining so I pack it in for the day.
Homer
KG5SQX
