Simple Ham Radio Antennas

Here's an interesting VHF "tuner" project from "crookedninja5." This tuner can be made for almost nothing, depending on how much material and old radio parts you can find in your "junk box." If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95tup1t9PGc Here are some comments and suggestions from the author: I needed something to make my clothes hanger antenna a little more broad-banded in the 100-200 MHz range, so I made a simple antenna tuner from junk... this would work for scanners too.... The variable capacitor can be any 0-365 pf capacitor... for c1 and c2 a ceramic or trimmer capacitor can be used... c3 and the coil is all you really need... About 8 or more turns on the inductor coil with taps spaced out every other turn. The rotary switch is from a old indoor antenna... everything in this vid was from a junk box, except for the RadioShack enclosure. Once you get the ...

If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95tup1t9PGc. Thanks to "crookedninja5" for this simple, useful antenna "tuner" for the 2-meter amateur/ham band. "Crookedninja5" says the idea for this project came from a desire to make his homebrew coat hanger VHF antenna more broadband. Here are some of the steps used by this radio amateur to make this homebrew antenna "tuner": "I needed something to make my clothes hanger antenna a little more broad-banded in the 100-200 MHz range, so I made a simple antenna tuner from junk... this would work for scanners too.... The variable capacitor can be any 0-365 pf capacitor... for c1 and c2 a ceramic or trimmer capacitor can be used... c3 and the coil is all you really need... About 8 or more turns on the inductor coil with taps spaced out every other turn. The rotary switch is from a old indoor antenna... ev...