#hamradio #antenna #diy

A few days ago, I had the idea of building a simple dipole antenna for the 2 meter/VHF amateur radio band, similar to the dipole antennas I built to use on the HF ham radio bands.

I rounded up all the supplied I needed to make this antenna, and headed over to the workbench and built and tested my newest antenna for ham radio.

I used left over Christmas Light Wire in mine, but regular old speaker wire should work fine (and probably better!).

Build Your Own Using The Following Supplies:
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:40 Supplies
01:40 Building The Antenna
09:18 Continuity Test & Finishing Touches
10:56 Hanging The Antenna Up
11:21 SWR Test
12:34 Making Contacts
14:47 Final Thoughts

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