WS6Z's Antennas

VHF/UHF Antennas

• The easiest thing to build: A 2m ground plane
• They're cheap to build. I actually used coat-hangers to build mine; works wonderfully! Note that I didn't build the dual-band version and just a 2m version using 20 inch sections of coat-hangers


• A 2m/440 "copper cactus" super J-pole
• My favorite of them all. I like it so much, I've built two!
• Later I measured one of them with an antenna analyzer. This particular experiment also nicely showed how two different antennas can interact with each other.


• A 2m/6m fanned dipole set for 2m/6m SSB.
• I've made a bunch of 6m contacts, but the 2m side doesn't get out enough.

HF Antennas

• A fanned 20m/15m/10m dipole in my attic.


• I want to build, but haven't, a Sky Loop