Great video - I am going to make one of these and locate like you have under the house eves. Is there any issue with those wires and the weather ? I.e. snow, rain, etc. ? What is that green line that the wires are wrapped around. ? Thanks!
Length of each element: 8 feet, 7.2 inches 2.62 meters Total length of dipole: 17 feet, 2.4 inches 5.24 meters I measured it for the center of the 11-meter band. I still had to play with the length to get the SWR dialed in due to nearby objects.
@@RidgeHikerAdventures does he have to use the black wire in middle connection and red on bolt hole? Or doesn't it matter? Thanks , off sr160 in Pahrump Nevada
I started with 9 feet for each leg and ended up trimming down to around 8.53 feet. If I were to construct it again, I would fold the ends instead of cutting them. Wire color does not matter.
Hi Jorge, my dipole is 1/2 wavelength. I cut the ends to tune it, but if I were to construct it again, I would fold the ends over to adjust the length. The antenna is a horizonal dipole and not an inverted V though I would like to construct one in the future to see how it performs. Thanks for watching! 73s from 595 Northern Nevada.
When soldering, flux then "Tin" both the fitting, and the wire, then put the two ends together and add the heat with the iron. Pre tinning the wires/coupling SO239 makes it a little cleaner when all is said and done!👍 Great job though, I find making and experaminting with different antennas the fun part of the hobby. With antenna design, you can through "RF (radio frequency) physics" turn a 4 watt radio signal as powerful as a 40 watt radio with "Forward Gain" the more forward gain your antenna produces, the stronger the radio's signal will be. One thing to keep in mind is about 99% of the CB radio operators out there, everyone is using a vertical polarized antenna, now if iam not mistaken, your antenna is mounted "Horizontally" under your eaves of the house?, if thats the case, your not going to hear many people unless they are really close to your home. Take your antenna and mount it vertically, and you'll notice the whole world is talking especially now, signal skip is at an all time high right now, ive been able to talk with people all over the Country using only 4 watts and a 7' skip shooter tunable mobile CB antenna. Just food for thought. Thanks for sharing your dipole antenna build with us!. 73's. (4570) Flagsraff,Az
Thanks for the tips, my soldering skills have improved over the past year due to helpful tips like yours. You are correct that my dipole is horizontal. I have since built another dipole that is mounted on top of my RV on the side of my house. I have it mounted horizontal as I like to work skip and don’t talk too much locally. It does a pretty decent job but would perform better if I had it mounted higher. I live in Northern Nevada and have talked to the Great Lakes on both sides of the border during times of F2 propagation which is around 3000 miles. I have done this with 12 watts on sideband. Creating your own antennas is a great part of the hobby! Thanks for commenting and 73s from 595 Northern Nevada!
100 💯 percentage of the time is bad coax trew it away ok .rca jacks or 75.oms .ok homebrew antenna 📶.fm mode 😮 📳 I have everything I need 😅just study how to make the best mount .20 foot 👣 post on the next video 📷
I started with two copper electrical wires around 9 feet each and trimmed them down to around 103 inches. I trimmed them a little bit at a time and checked the SWR between snips making sure to trim the wires evenly. The antenna works great for talking skip. Thanks for watching !
Hi SECTOR5, it does not matter which way the wires are hooked up. There is no positive or negative point. Whenever RF resonates within the antenna, there is an AC voltage difference across the antenna which in turn will let current flow forward and backward through the antenna. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada!
Yes, this was one of my first builds before I knew about baluns. When I have time, I plan to add a balun and post my results. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada.
@@RidgeHikerAdventures Been reading more about baluns...You may or may not really need them depending on your situation. F00king RF hobby is strange, yea? :P
A 1:1 current Balun is for suppression on common mode current on the outside of the coax shield helping to prevent RFI/TVI in the shack in and on other electronics around your home and in other peoples homes. It does not act as a matching transformer. Balun means Balanced (the dipole antenna) to Unbalanced (the coax), Un-Un means Unbalanced to Unbalanced such as in a line isolator which does the same thing that a current balun (common mode choke balun) does but is placed at some point in the coax feedline or at the shack end to, again, help prevent common mode currents from traveling on the outside of the coax shield. An Un-Un can also be placed at the feed-point of a ground-plane antenna if you are experiencing RFI/TVI.
Just because channel 20 is decent doesn't mean 1 and 40 will be even..Best to check on 1,40 and 20. Best to use an antenna analyzer if you have access to one.
@@vegasfordguy They can be, but they don't have to be. You calibrate it before use, then set the high and low frequency for the sweep, then sweep the range for swr and it outputs a graph. You can do a lot more with it, and it's not as easy to use as an antenna analyzer - but it's also not a $200+ tool. Anyway, if I can do it - you can do it! The funny thing is - when you get into pro grade stuff, the antenna analyzers are the cheap ones. At least from what I've seen anyway.
Hi, that was one of my first TH-cam videos I created, and it appears that I messed up the acronym for "Standing Wave Ratio". Arter a 30-year hiatus in CB radios, I was bound to mess up a few terms while figuring out how to create TH-cam content at the same time. Good thing that I was not graded on vocabulary, :) Thanks for watching. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada!
Our neighborhood doesn't have an HOA but I don't want to mount a big antenna on the house. I'm more interested in skip and the current setup has worked well. I'm sure it would work better if I got the antenna higher. I have built another dipole and I will try mounting it in one of the tall trees on our property. I think I will try this one vertical and see what different results I get. Thanks for watching and 73's from Northern Nevada!
@@RidgeHikerAdventures Yes, that will work better. Going vertical and more height. That's the key. Most stations are vertically polarized anyway. Try making a j pole antenna for the tree. That will get you out somewhat. You have to have somewhat efficient antennas as its been said this solar cycle isn't going to be that great. While that antenna looked stealth, it isn't going to make many contacts. 73
@@chrisolson968 Thanks for the tip on the j pole, I had never heard of that type of antenna before. I made another dipole out of PVC pipe to be able to move it around and see what location works best. Last Saturday, I had my best skip day ever. I was able to make around 6 contacts in Canada and San Diego. I had just replaced all the caps in my sideband radio recently and was anxious to test it out. Thanks again for the tip on the antenna and have a great weekend.
@@RidgeHikerAdventures Yes very good. Well you must have a good sideband rig. It must have a little extra output. I got into cb in the 70s when I was a kid. Man that was one heck of a cb craze. I played with antennas a lot over the years. It does seem out West gets a little more dx propagation than here in the Midwest. Maybe the higher elevation. I can't wait until 10 meters opens up and of course that's good for 11 meter cb too. I hope you find a antenna that works for you. The j pole is an easy to tune omni antenna. You don't have to buy the ladder line. You can have one piece of wire and use some pvc as a spacer for your matching stub. If you make one you will figure it out easy enough. The higher in the air the better. Sometimes its hard to get antennas as high as they need to be. Take care 73
@@chrisolson968 My first CB was back in the late 70's. Back then I didn't know about SWR and just threw an antenna on my old Mustang. I didn't even know skip existed. A lot of the kids at my high school had a CB. Back then the channels were very busy. Mt uncle about 10 miles away had a base station with a huge antenna. I lived in the hills and he was in the valley. I remember being able to reach him so my antenna must have been fairly well tuned. I just started getting back into CB's about 4 months ago. I wanted to put a vintage CB into our vintage RV and the bug bit me again. I love working on the old radios as they are fairly easy to replace the capacitors and other parts. I'm working on getting the proper equipment to tune them. Regards
On 27.025 MHz which would be the center of the 11 meter band, the total antenna length would be 17.38 feet. The dipole leg lengths would be 8.659 feet long. Thanks for watching!
You might have realized this by now, but your antenna configuration as shown is horizontally polarized, while almost all conventional CB is vertically polarized. That mismatch will cause a significant loss of transmit/received signal.
I've talked with those guys also. My favorite reply to a radio check was the guy who replied "It works". I'm always thrilled when I hear somebody new locally and try to strike up a conversation. 73s from 595 Lake Tahoe Nevada!
@@RidgeHikerAdventures For me it is mainly on channel 19 they are grumpy. Yeah every city has the " IT WORKS" guy. LOL yes 73's from 076 Ventura , California.
I would highly recommend buying a commercially available aluminum antenna if you want to have a chance at reaching out more than 1/2 a mile. The higher you get it, the better. Your receive will also dramatically improve as well.
Thanks for the suggestion, I have another antenna mounted vertically at around 20 feet to use for local traffic. I live in a valley surrounded by mountains on all sides, and it pretty much reaches most of the valley. Thanks for watching!
@@RidgeHikerAdventures of course it does I'm west of Las Vegas in Pahrump Valley and with my dipole I can get the whole valley. Which is about 20 mi diameter
@@caseykelso1 Nice range! I also live in a valley surrounded by mountains on all sides. I have logged around 450 DX contacts in the past year. It's a great antenna!
You know that’s the worse possible location for a dipole. Throw it over a tree or on a wooden fence if you need it to be stealthy. Apply more heat and less solder. A solder lug is helpful on these 239 female squares. I can’t tell if this one is just silver coated or what. Stainless is water and rust resistant. I like using liquid electrical tape if it’ll be outdoors
That was my first dipole antenna I ever built. My current dipole is above the roofline and works well. I'm planning on hanging one between two tall trees on my property. My soldering skills have also improved thanks to suggestions like yours from viewers. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada.
@@RidgeHikerAdventures i would use ring terminals than just put a nut over the bare wire i found out that it will get wet and cause all type of swl issues
My background is not in electronics, but the antenna works great and I’m having a good time with all the skip contacts I have made. When learning something new, we all start at the same place and through practice and constructive criticism from others with more experience we gain knowledge and do better with each new project. With respect to others in the CB community, I have always used constructive criticism instead of trying to tear someone down. I choose not to take that route. Trying to make someone feel bad serves no purpose. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada.
An easier way to get the length is just fold the end of the wire and wrap it around itself, which also makes a nice loop for hanging it and attaching a weight on the bottom. Good luck making many contacts with a horizontal antenna. 99.9999% of CB antennas are vertical.
Great idea for looping the ends. I went with a horizonal dipole as I'm more interested in skip and I read that mounting it horizonal will work better for skip. So far I've had good luck making contacts with only putting out around 20 watts on sideband. Thanks for watching!
I'm pretty sure you have to actually physically cut the wire to make the wire shorter you can wrap it up in a ball and it's still going to be say 10 ft long or you can stretch it out and have to be 10 ft long I don't think folding it over is going to help at all
Usually raido checks end up get an unfriendly person. What I dont get is they dont have to answer if they are going to beca dick lol. Any nice video. Im waiting in some jumpers to take apart and make a couple of these!
I've had a few rude radio checks but they are usually from people driving through town. The locals for the most part are pretty friendly. I like to work on old radios and try out homebuilt antennas so I've asked for quite a few radio checks. Thanks for the comments and watching. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada.
That was my first attempt at soldering, it didn't go well. I finally figured it out and have recapped all of my CB's and have gotten better soldering each time. Thanks for the tip! 73's from Northern Nevada.
Great video - I am going to make one of these and locate like you have under the house eves. Is there any issue with those wires and the weather ? I.e. snow, rain, etc. ? What is that green line that the wires are wrapped around. ? Thanks!
Could you get the same dx if you coiled those wires around lengths of PVC to condense everything?
Thanks for the video. Can you share how long the wires are giving you low SWR? Thanks
Length of each element:
8 feet, 7.2 inches
2.62 meters
Total length of dipole:
17 feet, 2.4 inches
5.24 meters
I measured it for the center of the 11-meter band. I still had to play with the length to get the SWR dialed in due to nearby objects.
the tip on the soldering iron is loose in the heater. and flick that iron to get the blobs off.
Howdy. Very nice.
One may consider using a ferrule soldering the connector centre pin for easier soldering.
Regards.
A nice no-nonsense design! I want to do something like that also. Thanks for sharing!
Having the antenna wires encased in the PVC pipe makes it easy to reposition. Thanks for watching! 73s from 595 Northern Nevada.
@@RidgeHikerAdventures ...and 73s to you from 993 Seattle!
@@RidgeHikerAdventures does he have to use the black wire in middle connection and red on bolt hole? Or doesn't it matter? Thanks , off sr160 in Pahrump Nevada
@@caseykelso1 Hi Casey, it does not matter the color of the wires.
Hot 🔥 and ground
Do you do the same for a vertical CB 11 meter antenna ?
Yes, look at Mower Junkie's channel, he has a video with a vertical mounted dipole. 73s from 595, Northern Nevada.
Great vid. How long are the black and red wires? And do you ALWAYS put black wire to CENTER of 239 connector and red grounded to bolt on side of 239?
I started with 9 feet for each leg and ended up trimming down to around 8.53 feet. If I were to construct it again, I would fold the ends instead of cutting them. Wire color does not matter.
What wave of dipole was it ? We never knew .did you cut to tune it or did you slope the ends inverted v ?
Hi Jorge, my dipole is 1/2 wavelength. I cut the ends to tune it, but if I were to construct it again, I would fold the ends over to adjust the length. The antenna is a horizonal dipole and not an inverted V though I would like to construct one in the future to see how it performs. Thanks for watching! 73s from 595 Northern Nevada.
Man that was great good job !! Bu l want to see that antenna after the installation !! 🏍️
When soldering, flux then "Tin" both the fitting, and the wire, then put the two ends together and add the heat with the iron. Pre tinning the wires/coupling SO239 makes it a little cleaner when all is said and done!👍
Great job though, I find making and experaminting with different antennas the fun part of the hobby. With antenna design, you can through "RF (radio frequency) physics" turn a 4 watt radio signal as powerful as a 40 watt radio with "Forward Gain" the more forward gain your antenna produces, the stronger the radio's signal will be.
One thing to keep in mind is about 99% of the CB radio operators out there, everyone is using a vertical polarized antenna, now if iam not mistaken, your antenna is mounted "Horizontally" under your eaves of the house?, if thats the case, your not going to hear many people unless they are really close to your home. Take your antenna and mount it vertically, and you'll notice the whole world is talking especially now, signal skip is at an all time high right now, ive been able to talk with people all over the Country using only 4 watts and a 7' skip shooter tunable mobile CB antenna. Just food for thought.
Thanks for sharing your dipole antenna build with us!. 73's. (4570) Flagsraff,Az
Thanks for the tips, my soldering skills have improved over the past year due to helpful tips like yours. You are correct that my dipole is horizontal. I have since built another dipole that is mounted on top of my RV on the side of my house. I have it mounted horizontal as I like to work skip and don’t talk too much locally. It does a pretty decent job but would perform better if I had it mounted higher. I live in Northern Nevada and have talked to the Great Lakes on both sides of the border during times of F2 propagation which is around 3000 miles. I have done this with 12 watts on sideband. Creating your own antennas is a great part of the hobby! Thanks for commenting and 73s from 595 Northern Nevada!
Local shack store or hardware.take your time wire antenna
100 💯 percentage of the time is bad coax trew it away ok .rca jacks or 75.oms .ok homebrew antenna 📶.fm mode 😮 📳 I have everything I need 😅just study how to make the best mount .20 foot 👣 post on the next video 📷
Make this antenna for 📲 key down 👇
What was your beginning and ending length of the wires ?
I started with two copper electrical wires around 9 feet each and trimmed them down to around 103 inches. I trimmed them a little bit at a time and checked the SWR between snips making sure to trim the wires evenly. The antenna works great for talking skip. Thanks for watching !
You always put the + wire (red) on the negative side ?
Hi SECTOR5, it does not matter which way the wires are hooked up. There is no positive or negative point. Whenever RF resonates within the antenna, there is an AC voltage difference across the antenna which in turn will let current flow forward and backward through the antenna. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada!
Shouldn't center fed dipoles have a 1:1 balun at the connection?
Yes, this was one of my first builds before I knew about baluns. When I have time, I plan to add a balun and post my results. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada.
@@RidgeHikerAdventures Been reading more about baluns...You may or may not really need them depending on your situation.
F00king RF hobby is strange, yea?
:P
A 1:1 current Balun is for suppression on common mode current on the outside of the coax shield helping to prevent RFI/TVI in the shack in and on other electronics around your home and in other peoples homes.
It does not act as a matching transformer.
Balun means Balanced (the dipole antenna) to Unbalanced (the coax), Un-Un means Unbalanced to Unbalanced such as in a line isolator which does the same thing that a current balun (common mode choke balun) does but is placed at some point in the coax feedline or at the shack end to, again, help prevent common mode currents from traveling on the outside of the coax shield.
An Un-Un can also be placed at the feed-point of a ground-plane antenna if you are experiencing RFI/TVI.
I don’t mess around with channel 1 and channel 40…
I just go straight to channel 20 and if it’s good then I’ll leave it alone.
Just because channel 20 is decent doesn't mean 1 and 40 will be even..Best to check on 1,40 and 20. Best to use an antenna analyzer if you have access to one.
@@vegasfordguy You can get a nanoVNA for 60 bucks that can sweep the antenna for swr over a range of frequencies. Much less than an antenna analyzer.
@@notsure7874 Everyone I've talked to who has one says they are pretty complicated to use?
@@vegasfordguy They can be, but they don't have to be.
You calibrate it before use, then set the high and low frequency for the sweep, then sweep the range for swr and it outputs a graph. You can do a lot more with it, and it's not as easy to use as an antenna analyzer - but it's also not a $200+ tool. Anyway, if I can do it - you can do it!
The funny thing is - when you get into pro grade stuff, the antenna analyzers are the cheap ones. At least from what I've seen anyway.
You keep saying SSW. What is that? Do you mean SWR or standing wave ratio?
Hi, that was one of my first TH-cam videos I created, and it appears that I messed up the acronym for "Standing Wave Ratio". Arter a 30-year hiatus in CB radios, I was bound to mess up a few terms while figuring out how to create TH-cam content at the same time. Good thing that I was not graded on vocabulary, :) Thanks for watching. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada!
Well it works. What were your plans for your station? Was this just a test? Your range will be small. You must be in a HOA.
Our neighborhood doesn't have an HOA but I don't want to mount a big antenna on the house. I'm more interested in skip and the current setup has worked well. I'm sure it would work better if I got the antenna higher. I have built another dipole and I will try mounting it in one of the tall trees on our property. I think I will try this one vertical and see what different results I get. Thanks for watching and 73's from Northern Nevada!
@@RidgeHikerAdventures Yes, that will work better. Going vertical and more height. That's the key. Most stations are vertically polarized anyway. Try making a j pole antenna for the tree. That will get you out somewhat. You have to have somewhat efficient antennas as its been said this solar cycle isn't going to be that great. While that antenna looked stealth, it isn't going to make many contacts. 73
@@chrisolson968 Thanks for the tip on the j pole, I had never heard of that type of antenna before. I made another dipole out of PVC pipe to be able to move it around and see what location works best. Last Saturday, I had my best skip day ever. I was able to make around 6 contacts in Canada and San Diego. I had just replaced all the caps in my sideband radio recently and was anxious to test it out. Thanks again for the tip on the antenna and have a great weekend.
@@RidgeHikerAdventures Yes very good. Well you must have a good sideband rig. It must have a little extra output. I got into cb in the 70s when I was a kid. Man that was one heck of a cb craze. I played with antennas a lot over the years. It does seem out West gets a little more dx propagation than here in the Midwest. Maybe the higher elevation. I can't wait until 10 meters opens up and of course that's good for 11 meter cb too. I hope you find a antenna that works for you. The j pole is an easy to tune omni antenna. You don't have to buy the ladder line. You can have one piece of wire and use some pvc as a spacer for your matching stub. If you make one you will figure it out easy enough. The higher in the air the better. Sometimes its hard to get antennas as high as they need to be. Take care 73
@@chrisolson968 My first CB was back in the late 70's. Back then I didn't know about SWR and just threw an antenna on my old Mustang. I didn't even know skip existed. A lot of the kids at my high school had a CB. Back then the channels were very busy. Mt uncle about 10 miles away had a base station with a huge antenna. I lived in the hills and he was in the valley. I remember being able to reach him so my antenna must have been fairly well tuned. I just started getting back into CB's about 4 months ago. I wanted to put a vintage CB into our vintage RV and the bug bit me again. I love working on the old radios as they are fairly easy to replace the capacitors and other parts. I'm working on getting the proper equipment to tune them. Regards
Can this be set up as an inverted V?
How long wire? Thanks
On 27.025 MHz which would be the center of the 11 meter band, the total antenna length would be 17.38 feet. The dipole leg lengths would be 8.659 feet long. Thanks for watching!
What is SSW or do you mean SWR
Lol, SWR.
How long is your coax to your cb and your end wires plz
36 feet. I looped the excess coax into a coil below the feed point as a choke. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada.
SSW ?? 😊 I believe you meant to say SWR
That's exactly what I thought. LOL
Only put flux where you want solder to flow, pre tin each side of the joint first.
you can one these antenna into tree or purple martin birdhouse or other birdhouse you comeup something cool.
You might have realized this by now, but your antenna configuration as shown is horizontally polarized, while almost all conventional CB is vertically polarized. That mismatch will cause a significant loss of transmit/received signal.
Hi David, I have my dipole mounted horizontally for skip. I have another antenna that I use for local contacts. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada.
@@RidgeHikerAdventures Ahhhh...makes sense. 73 from NJ
The grumpy guys when you try and get a radio check. I get it all the time.
I've talked with those guys also. My favorite reply to a radio check was the guy who replied "It works". I'm always thrilled when I hear somebody new locally and try to strike up a conversation. 73s from 595 Lake Tahoe Nevada!
@@RidgeHikerAdventures For me it is mainly on channel 19 they are grumpy. Yeah every city has the " IT WORKS" guy. LOL yes 73's from 076 Ventura , California.
Its called a bulk head mount
got 3 built cover other bands . work good
Dipoles are great antenna and pretty simple to build. I have another one for my two-meter radio. Thanks for watching!
I would highly recommend buying a commercially available aluminum antenna if you want to have a chance at reaching out more than 1/2 a mile. The higher you get it, the better. Your receive will also dramatically improve as well.
Thanks for the suggestion, I have another antenna mounted vertically at around 20 feet to use for local traffic. I live in a valley surrounded by mountains on all sides, and it pretty much reaches most of the valley. Thanks for watching!
I could reach out a mile with my TV antenna don't be a fool them dipoles will reach far 20 miles
@@RidgeHikerAdventures of course it does I'm west of Las Vegas in Pahrump Valley and with my dipole I can get the whole valley. Which is about 20 mi diameter
@@caseykelso1 Nothing compares to an aluminum antenna. Don't be a fool 🤣
@@caseykelso1 Nice range! I also live in a valley surrounded by mountains on all sides. I have logged around 450 DX contacts in the past year. It's a great antenna!
You know that’s the worse possible location for a dipole. Throw it over a tree or on a wooden fence if you need it to be stealthy. Apply more heat and less solder. A solder lug is helpful on these 239 female squares. I can’t tell if this one is just silver coated or what. Stainless is water and rust resistant. I like using liquid electrical tape if it’ll be outdoors
That was my first dipole antenna I ever built. My current dipole is above the roofline and works well. I'm planning on hanging one between two tall trees on my property. My soldering skills have also improved thanks to suggestions like yours from viewers. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada.
Tin roof, metal guttering?, hard up against timber, 75ohm feed point, 52ohm coax? …it will work great!
😮
Nice video I appreciate your work. Thank you!
Thanks for watching! 73s from 595 Northern Nevada
@@RidgeHikerAdventures i would use ring terminals than just put a nut over the bare wire i found out that it will get wet and cause all type of swl issues
and it not ssw its swr standing wave ratio
I'm gona try it... Thanks 😁👍
Good Luck!
Good first effort 👍
Thanks 🙂
It’s like watching play school
My background is not in electronics, but the antenna works great and I’m having a good time with all the skip contacts I have made. When learning something new, we all start at the same place and through practice and constructive criticism from others with more experience we gain knowledge and do better with each new project. With respect to others in the CB community, I have always used constructive criticism instead of trying to tear someone down. I choose not to take that route. Trying to make someone feel bad serves no purpose. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada.
Ive never seen that.Whats play school?
@@RidgeHikerAdventures What part of Northern Nevada are you located in? I'm in Northern Nevada as well.
@@vegasfordguy Hi, I live in western Nevada about 15 miles south of Carson City. How about yourself?
@@RidgeHikerAdventures Fernley, NV.
Great video i love it
I'm glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching. 73s from 595, Lake Tahoe Nevada!
the red wire goes on the center conducter
Yeah exactly because it just won't work if black is in the centre lol
It happens all the 🕙
An easier way to get the length is just fold the end of the wire and wrap it around itself, which also makes a nice loop for hanging it and attaching a weight on the bottom. Good luck making many contacts with a horizontal antenna. 99.9999% of CB antennas are vertical.
Great idea for looping the ends. I went with a horizonal dipole as I'm more interested in skip and I read that mounting it horizonal will work better for skip. So far I've had good luck making contacts with only putting out around 20 watts on sideband. Thanks for watching!
It's a dipole. They are usually horizontal. But you can put them vertical.
I'm pretty sure you have to actually physically cut the wire to make the wire shorter you can wrap it up in a ball and it's still going to be say 10 ft long or you can stretch it out and have to be 10 ft long I don't think folding it over is going to help at all
SWR
SWR is low, around 0 on channel 1 and 1.2 on 40. Thanks for watching!
He was just saying it's SWR instead of SSW.
LOL, thanks!
Good video
Glad you enjoyed it! 73s from 595 Northern Nevada!
Usually raido checks end up get an unfriendly person. What I dont get is they dont have to answer if they are going to beca dick lol. Any nice video. Im waiting in some jumpers to take apart and make a couple of these!
I've had a few rude radio checks but they are usually from people driving through town. The locals for the most part are pretty friendly. I like to work on old radios and try out homebuilt antennas so I've asked for quite a few radio checks. Thanks for the comments and watching. 73s from 595 Northern Nevada.
Too much solder and not enough heat.
That was my first attempt at soldering, it didn't go well. I finally figured it out and have recapped all of my CB's and have gotten better soldering each time. Thanks for the tip! 73's from Northern Nevada.
U dont really show wat u doing
I have another video where I go into more detail on constructing a dipole. Thanks for watching!