2 hour project. Used 10awg ground wire. Hooked it up to my Retevis RB27 with a 3 ft TNC to PL239 cable. No way to measure SWR but works great and easily hit a repeater I usually have trouble with even with a super smiley telescopic.
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Made a Moxon for my HT
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2 hour project. Used 10awg ground wire. Hooked it up to my Retevis RB27 with a 3 ft TNC to PL239 cable. No way to measure SWR but works great and easily hit a repeater I usually have trouble with even with a super smiley telescopic.
Did some more testing. Definitely works better vertically. My first test was on identical radios but the one with the telescopic had an almost dead battery doh. Performance is about the same between the two but that's with me holding the moxon over my head and no way to measure swr. Be interesting to get it up in the air though.
I have some 10 awg left over. Maybe enough for a 1/4 GP...
I have some 10 awg left over. Maybe enough for a 1/4 GP...
Got this up 21 feet in the air on a sapling I cut down to clear an old driveway. Works great! I think the professor would be proud.
Not sure why you would even want to use it horizontal as 99% FM coms on two meters is vertical.
Besides a stock cb and some walkie talkies as a kid, I've only been into the radio hobby for about a year now. I started experimenting with antennas on 11 meter and they were all horizontal. It was simply an oversight when I built my first antenna for GMRS. I figured it out quick enough. I don't work 2 meter as I'm not licensed yet.