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Home made antennas (pics)
the dipole antenna came from the Wiki page and was easy to make.it costme aprox. $25-30.00. I have yet to try it out as a previous groundplane antenna I made is working Great. The Yagi Antenna I made came from dimensions I aquired from this web site. http://www.dxzone.com/cgi-bin/dir/jump2.cgi?ID=11183 . I input 860 MHZ with 1/4" allthread for the directors, the driven element and reflector. I used 1" square tube from Home Depot and a custom configuration to insulate the driven units. this thing is TOTALLY AWESOME. On my BCD396T formy local San bernardino Sheriffs I was getting 0-1 bar of signal when hooked up to the yagi I get FULL signal strength and is loud and clear.I totally recomend this site for design specs.good luck. I had lots of fun buiding this antenna.it also cost me about $25.00
the dipole antenna came from the Wiki page and was easy to make.it costme aprox. $25-30.00. I have yet to try it out as a previous groundplane antenna I made is working Great. The Yagi Antenna I made came from dimensions I aquired from this web site. http://www.dxzone.com/cgi-bin/dir/jump2.cgi?ID=11183 . I input 860 MHZ with 1/4" allthread for the directors, the driven element and reflector. I used 1" square tube from Home Depot and a custom configuration to insulate the driven units. this thing is TOTALLY AWESOME. On my BCD396T formy local San bernardino Sheriffs I was getting 0-1 bar of signal when hooked up to the yagi I get FULL signal strength and is loud and clear.I totally recomend this site for design specs.good luck. I had lots of fun buiding this antenna.it also cost me about $25.00
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