Simple Antennas for Amateur Radio Operators--a continuing series
KH6JRM's Amateur Radio Blog Post #177 A modified fan dipole How would you like to make a simple, stealthy, and inexpensive antenna that covers 80 to 10 meters? All you need is a local hardware store, some connectors, some RG-8 coax, schedule 40 pvc pipe, some copper plumbing straps, a few bungie cords, and about 250-feet of stranded copper wire. The details of this fascinating skyhook can be found in the 31 July 2012 edition of eham.net ( http://www.eham.net ). Howard Gorman, W6HDG, has writen an article entitled "The Fence Fan Dipole (FFD)--A Quick, Easy, and Inexpensive Multiband Antenna." Howard provides detailed instructions and photographs to guide you in completing this project. Most of the materials for his antenna came from a local Home Depot store. Howard used a 12-foot fence around an old tennis court to support a 10-foot schedule 40 pvc pipe and ran antenna elements from a special antenna connector atop the pvc pipe. He used bungee cor...