1hardyanimal
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Good day my community of learners and Elmer’s!!!
So I have had the inclination lately that for my home base I am going to go with a homebrew J-pole out of either stainless rod or tube or maybe coper pipe. I can TIG weld stainless or sweat the copper, whatever it takes.
BUT here is what I am leaning towards. As I am a pretty wishy-washy purchaser and what tickles my fancy this week with knobs and dials and meters and displays this week, can easily be distracted next week by buttons and keypads and digitized displays. With this in mind I have an idea to build an easily tunable DUAL BAND 2m/70cm J-pole.
My thought is that were I connect my SO-239 panel, that I will be if copper, soldering that pipe strap/utility strap with all of the holes on each side of the construct. This way that where the shield/ground is normally soldered it can be fastened with a thumb screw, and where the core is normally wire, I will use thin threaded rod, so it can pass through the opposite side and be secured with a thumb screw. The idea here is to easily move it up and down to tune it initially, and then again for each radio that I may use swap out on this antenna…thoughts? Has this already been done and failed, am I a pioneer, or just a newb with his head in the clouds?
So I have had the inclination lately that for my home base I am going to go with a homebrew J-pole out of either stainless rod or tube or maybe coper pipe. I can TIG weld stainless or sweat the copper, whatever it takes.
BUT here is what I am leaning towards. As I am a pretty wishy-washy purchaser and what tickles my fancy this week with knobs and dials and meters and displays this week, can easily be distracted next week by buttons and keypads and digitized displays. With this in mind I have an idea to build an easily tunable DUAL BAND 2m/70cm J-pole.
My thought is that were I connect my SO-239 panel, that I will be if copper, soldering that pipe strap/utility strap with all of the holes on each side of the construct. This way that where the shield/ground is normally soldered it can be fastened with a thumb screw, and where the core is normally wire, I will use thin threaded rod, so it can pass through the opposite side and be secured with a thumb screw. The idea here is to easily move it up and down to tune it initially, and then again for each radio that I may use swap out on this antenna…thoughts? Has this already been done and failed, am I a pioneer, or just a newb with his head in the clouds?