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I want to start giving 6m a try, since my K3 is the first rig I have had that covers 6m. Recently I read an article describing a homebrew 6m dipole. The author had constructed a simple dipole using aluminum flat stock and rods, along with some u-bolts. I can not for the life of me find that article. I think it was recent and I was hoping some one out there also saw it and can remind my aging brain where I saw it. I have checked recent QSTs and ERs to no avail, although I certainly could have missed it.
Thank you for the bandwidth,JohnK5ENQ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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John,
Not sure if this is what you meant, but take a look at this. http://www.hamuniverse.com/6mdipolekk5id.html 73, Art WB8ENE On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 2:08 PM, John Saxon via Elecraft < [hidden email]> wrote: > I want to start giving 6m a try, since my K3 is the first rig I have had > that covers 6m. Recently I read an article describing a homebrew 6m > dipole. The author had constructed a simple dipole using aluminum flat > stock and rods, along with some u-bolts. I can not for the life of me find > that article. I think it was recent and I was hoping some one out there > also saw it and can remind my aging brain where I saw it. I have checked > recent QSTs and ERs to no avail, although I certainly could have missed it. > Thank you for the bandwidth,JohnK5ENQ > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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On Wed,7/13/2016 11:08 AM, John Saxon via Elecraft wrote:
> Recently I read an article describing a homebrew 6m dipole. The author had constructed a simple dipole using aluminum flat stock and rods, along with some u-bolts. I can not for the life of me find that article. Don't worry about finding that article -- it's purely a mechanical design problem. A dipole can be rigged in lots of ways. Compute element lengths from the ARRL Handbook, making them a few percent shorter if the elements are larger than #12 wire. 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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On 7/13/2016 2:21 PM, Jim Brown wrote: > > Don't worry about finding that article -- it's purely a mechanical > design problem. Absolutely ... a much easier design is a non-metallic conduit box with cover, a couple of fittings, a 10' piece of 1/2" or 3/4" *aluminum* conduit, a dowel that will fit into the conduit snugly and a couple U-bolts to fit whatever mast you're using. If the mast is bigger than 1.25" you may want to dispense with the conduit box and use half or a quarter of a cheap HDPE cutting board with a pair of U-bolts to fit the outside of the conduit. However, everything for the conduit box version is typically available at your local Home Depot or Lowes. The same general construction could be used for 10 and 12 meters except I would stick to 3/4" conduit and it will take two pieces. 73, ... Joe, W4TV ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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geezs google 6 meter dipole
cut a piece of wire to length and tape to a piece of plastic water pipe or just string up a dipole as high as you can get it favor east / west to cover Europe etc have fun Bob K3DJC On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 18:08:43 +0000 (UTC) John Saxon via Elecraft <[hidden email]> writes: > I want to start giving 6m a try, since my K3 is the first rig I have > had that covers 6m. Recently I read an article describing a > homebrew 6m dipole. The author had constructed a simple dipole > using aluminum flat stock and rods, along with some u-bolts. I can > not for the life of me find that article. I think it was recent > and I was hoping some one out there also saw it and can remind my > aging brain where I saw it. I have checked recent QSTs and ERs to > no avail, although I certainly could have missed it. > Thank you for the bandwidth,JohnK5ENQ > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Many thanks for all the nice responses.
I didn't give the background of my request...I have built lotsa wire dipoles. However I wanted to build a rigid 6m dipole. And if someone else has done it with accompanying explanation and diagram, I can build it without having to think...always a good thing for me :-) Thanks to all,JohnK5ENQ From: "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Cc: [hidden email] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT - 6m antenna geezs google 6 meter dipole cut a piece of wire to length and tape to a piece of plastic water pipe or just string up a dipole as high as you can get it favor east / west to cover Europe etc have fun Bob K3DJC ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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You might want to check out you tube. This video by K7AGE describes how
he built one. I'm sure there are other videos on you tube as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K5Vj6wtpE0 73 On 7/13/2016 6:41 PM, John Saxon via Elecraft wrote: > Many thanks for all the nice responses. > > I didn't give the background of my request...I have built lotsa wire dipoles. However I wanted to build a rigid 6m dipole. And if someone else has done it with accompanying explanation and diagram, I can build it without having to think...always a good thing for me :-) > Thanks to all,JohnK5ENQ > From: "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]> > To: [hidden email] > Cc: [hidden email] > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 2:13 PM > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT - 6m antenna > > geezs google 6 meter dipole > cut a piece of wire to length and tape to a piece of > plastic water pipe or just string up a dipole as high as you can get it > favor east / west to cover Europe etc > have fun > > Bob K3DJC > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I built one using 1/2-inch electrical conduit (steel) and clamped
each half to a 1-inch thick board with conduit clamps ran coax to the dipole an trimmed length to get good SWR. I assume you know how to calculate a half wavelength (cut the tubing about 2-inches long so you have some material to cut off (it will resonate low in freq to start). Probably better if you can find some 1/2-inch aluminum tubing (my local metal dealer would have to order that so I used ordinary conduit). I made a 3-element yagi this way and a 27-MHz J-pole using conduit (for a friend). 73, Ed - KL7UW From: John Saxon <[hidden email]> To: "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]> Cc: "[hidden email]" <[hidden email]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT - 6m antenna Message-ID: <[hidden email]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Many thanks for all the nice responses. I didn't give the background of my request...I have built lotsa wire dipoles. ?However I wanted to build a rigid 6m dipole. ?And if someone else has done it with accompanying explanation and diagram, I can build it without having to think...always a good thing for me ?:-) Thanks to all,JohnK5ENQ 73, Ed - KL7UW http://www.kl7uw.com "Kits made by KL7UW" Dubus Mag business: [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I have a 10M vertical made of 1/2" copper water pipe with a
ground plane of aluminum window screen. It works reasonably well. One piece of advice is to sweat or otherwise ensure good contact in all joints that should be connected in the antenna. Ask me how I know. :-) 73 Bill AE6JV On 7/13/16 at 12:39 AM, [hidden email] (Edward R Cole) wrote: >Probably better if you can find some 1/2-inch aluminum tubing >(my local metal dealer would have to order that so I used >ordinary conduit). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | "The only thing we have to | Periwinkle (408)356-8506 | fear is fear itself." - FDR | 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com | Inaugural address, 3/4/1933 | Los Gatos, CA 95032 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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