Thursday, November 22, 2012

Re: [HamBrewers] j-pole or dipole

Any difference in propagation angle - j-pole vs slim jim?
-vu3psz


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From: Raj <vu2zap@gmail.com>;
To: <HamBrewers@yahoogroups.com>;
Subject: Re: [HamBrewers] j-pole or dipole
Sent: Fri, Nov 23, 2012 4:21:18 AM

 

Hi Yan,

I built mine from 1/4" aluminium rods (easy to bend). The matching section was a slider mechanism that was made with a potentiometer locking collet nut like this. They were mounted on a bakelite strip along with the coax connector So-239. Turned up neat and easy to slide up down the matching section.



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At 23-11-2012, you wrote:

 

Hi Raj,

I agree, on VHF and higher the J-Pole rules.
You have to be a really rich plumber to build a copper J-Pole on 80m!!!

On HF, I build several ones with coax and twin-lead for 20m but it was rather deceptive.
Not bad, but no much advantages compared to a simple dipole and the disadvantage of 1/4 wave longer.

On VHF I also build a 2x5/8 colinear antenna based on a J-Pole. Easy to build and it has gain.
http://xv4y.radioclub.asia/xv4tuj-station-radioamateur-en-ok20ua/colineaire-j-pole-2x58-sur-144mhz/
http://xv4y.radioclub.asia/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/A1_Schema-5_8e.pdf

It was inspired by a Swedish or Danish article, but I lost the link...

73,
Yan.
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Yannick DEVOS - XV4Y
http://xv4y.radioclub.asia/
http://varc.radioclub.asia/

Le 23 nov. 2012 à 10:08, Raj a écrit :

> I presume it is for VHF then I would chose a J pole.
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> Raj, vu2zap
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> At 23-11-2012, you wrote:
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>> im very new & i want to build my own antenna
>> & used to be a plumber so have lots of copper tube
>> should i build a di pole or a j-pole ?
>> Many thanks
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