temchik
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Hi All,
I just built my first antenna - a 2m 3 element yagi, followed ARRL specs. Elements are made of 1/4 soft copper pipe.
It seems to work fine, not a huge gain over a JPole I had, but better on one distant repeater, full quieting.
A couple of issues though
- SWR is around 2.5
- couldn't find if it mattered where exactly to connect the wires - the very edge or not. Right now the are simply connected to the whole 1/2 inch pieces
- soldering to copper proved to be impossible, I am not very good at soldering
- the schematics didn't address element width at all, was not sure if I need to measure distances from the center or not.
Any insight will be appreciated
Thanks!
I just built my first antenna - a 2m 3 element yagi, followed ARRL specs. Elements are made of 1/4 soft copper pipe.
It seems to work fine, not a huge gain over a JPole I had, but better on one distant repeater, full quieting.
A couple of issues though
- SWR is around 2.5
- couldn't find if it mattered where exactly to connect the wires - the very edge or not. Right now the are simply connected to the whole 1/2 inch pieces
- soldering to copper proved to be impossible, I am not very good at soldering
- the schematics didn't address element width at all, was not sure if I need to measure distances from the center or not.
Any insight will be appreciated
Thanks!
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