Radio Corner
General => CB & PMR446 => Topic started by: Jonny5’s on Feb 22, 2026, 09:31 PM
My latest novelty antenna for the Monday night PMR Net. A straight dipole 4-element Yagi Beam, it can also still be used as a broom!
Two Vileda Brooms £4, I used an N-Type panel mount, the white mount for the dipoles is part of a plastic chopping board with some small clips from Amazon, and the Yagi beam calculator here for dimensions. https://3g-aerial.biz/en/online-calculations/antenna-calculations/dl6wu-yagi-uda-antenna-online-calculator
Looking at the VNA reading, could be better, but not bad out of the box with no tuning or tweaking.
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Bet you can "sweep" up all the QSO's with that 😂
Yet again someone proves the if it's metal it can be an antenna.