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Reply With QuoteTook it out again today (playing hookie from work), and got the j-pole tuned.
I'll take it.
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This is a discussion on The BPH RadiGo Project within the General Prepper and Survival Talk forums, part of the Survivalist, Prepper, Bushcrafter, Forest Rangers category; Originally Posted by Captjim_NM Very good project, I hope you water tested that ammo can before you did all that work............. The ammo can is ...
The ammo can is not intended to be waterproof. Only capable of shedding a bit of rain here and there. I won't be using it out in the rain, just transporting it. And the entire build is 100% independent of the ammo can. So I can pull it out and drop it into another can if necessary.Originally Posted by Captjim_NM
No issue hitting the local repeater.
Took it out again today (playing hookie from work
I'll take it.
My order of some 450-ohm ladderline arrived Saturday, so yesterday I started building a roll-up 2-meter slim jim. Got the bulk of the work done yesterday.
Got it tuned and soldered up tonight, and finished it up with some heat-shrink.
Now THAT'S a compact, portable antenna!
Even just hanging on the wall inside, with the radio set to low power (10 watts) I was pushing 9 watts to it and hitting the repeater about 3 miles away.
Last edited by Back Pack Hack; 01-18-2021 at 08:53 PM.
Crap!My order of some 450-ohm ladderline arrived Saturday, so yesterday I started building a roll-up 2-meter slim jim. Got the bulk of the work done yesterday.
Got it tuned and soldered up tonight, and finished it up with some heat-shrink.
Now THAT'S a compact, portable antenna!
Well, as we jokingly say, the bigger the glob, the bigger the job!
Other than that, beautiful!
"Reality is almost always wrong."
Dr. Gregory House
The ALS is complete:
"What's an ALS?", you ask? Why, it's the Antenna Launch System, of course!
The collapsing fishing pole is extended, placed into the ground stake (orange spiral thingy) and a ½-oz egg sinker with a swatch of fluorescent pink embroidery floss is launched into a tree using the slingshot. The floss (thread) is to make the sinker visible after re-entry. When it reaches the ground after going over the desired tree branch, a sturdy twine is attached and pulled back to launch control (a euphemism for where I was standing with the slingshot). Once the twine is pulled back over the branch using the fishing line, it's used to hoist the roll-up ladderline antenna into the air.
Connect the antenna to the RadiGo, power it on and I'm OTA!
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