Building simple expedient VHF/UHF antennas, presented by Ron, WA6YOU

Ron Payne, WA6YOU, a nationally recognized expert in building coax interconnects and antennas, demonstrates how to build quick and easy Ground Plane (GP) UHF/VHF antenna. Ron demonstrates how to calculate length of the antenna elements, prepare copper wire for soldering, put the antenna together, and tune and measure it. At the end of this short presentation he ends up with a perfectly tuned antenna for the 70cm HAM radio band. Other interesting presentations Ron gave at the Club's meetings: The Antenna Analyzer: Applications in Amateur Radio:    • The Antenna Analyzer: Applications in Amat...   Coax Cable and Connectors – The Timorous Art of Terminations:    • Coax Cable and Connectors – The Timorous A...   How to use an antenna analyzer:    • How to use an antenna analyzer   How to use an antenna analyzer:    • The Tools of Soldering   The Dipole - Basics:    • The Dipole   The Dipole - Advanced Lecture:    • The Dipole   Expanded Lecture   00:00 Introduction 05:01 UHF/VHF antenna examples 05:25 Handie-talkie (HT) radios and their dummy load on a stick (rubber-duckie) 06:32 Carrying HT on a belt 07:22 Tiger-tail - the other half of the antenna 09:14 Mobile antennas 11:32 Field expedient antenna construction 11:50 Always use silver-plated connectors 12:44 Ground plane antenna formulas (with magic numbers for imperial units) 13:23 Radials are always 10% longer 14:36 Will adding more radials help? 14:52 Ground planes love symmetry 15:51 Straightening and hardening copper wire 19:02 Cutting the wires for the antenna 19:42 Preparing wires for soldering 20:34 Soldering iron for field work 21:52 Dealing with smoke 22:50 Soldering the radiator 23:06 Flux: RMA186 25:17 Preparation of radials 25:58 What kind of solder do you use? 27:30 Soldering radials 29:52 Tuning the antenna 31:51 Measuring the antenna 33:07 Radials slope angle 34:36 Antenna bandwidth 37:46 Ron's favorite SWR analyzer 38:22 Field expedient 4-element Yagi-Uda 40:13 Other presentations worth watching Vienna Wireless Society is one of the largest and most active Amateur Radio clubs in Northern Virginia. Currently the meetings are conducted via Zoom, and are open for everybody, anywhere. To learn more, please visit Club's web site: http://viennawireless.net/wp/ To receive notifications about meetings, and participate in discussions and activities, please join the Club: https://viennawireless.net/wp/join/ You can also browse the archive of past presentations: https://viennawireless.net/wp/meeting... To receive notifications about new videos and streams, please subscribe to the channel. The video has been published on the channel with permission from the presenter, as a service for Vienna Wireless Society amateur radio club. The presenter holds full responsibility for the content of the presentation. If you believe that it infringes your copyright, please contact [email protected] #antenna #groundplane #diyantenna #antennatuning #vws #ViennaWirelessSociety #hamr #HamRadio