Simple Ham Radio Antennas

Here are some more vertical antenna suggestions from Australian radio amateur Peter Parker (VK3YE). In this case, Peter builds a vertical antenna that requires no trimming to be operational.   If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browsers search box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ObV_OpK1rQ This is post 2745 in a continuing series of simple ham radio antennas. Here are some comments from Peter: You don't always need to precisely cut your antenna if you have a part of it coiled up and switched. Here I take 4.6m of thin insulated wire and connected it to five shorter pieces (about 10cm long) wired across a rotary switch. This allows its length to be varied. The advantage of this is that you can cover about a 10% frequency range rather than the 3% that a fixed length antenna covers. This experiment was with a 1/4 wavelength vertical on 14 MHz but if you want to do it for 28 MHz I would suggest using about 2.3m for the vertical element and pieces o...