[W8MWA] Simple, cheap J-pole

[Joshua Smith]

Hello Dean,

Thanks for sharing this antenna design. For anyone interested a very similar antenna is commercially available from arrow antennas (http://www.arrowantennas.com/osj/j-pole.html). I have one of these and it seems to work well. 

73,
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Josh Smith
KD8HRX

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> On Apr 19, 2015, at 1:43 PM, Dean Thompson <deanot26508 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Here is a simple and cheap, dual band J-pole setup. Includes dimensions and parts list.  Not your normal copper pipe j-pole, this one is aluminum.
> Swr on this setup, is around 1.1:1 as reported by a colleague of mine.  He is in Houston PA and opened up our repeater and communicated with me on 10 watts.
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