Novelty Antenna 446 Broom Beam

[Jonny5’s]

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.



 

[Razz229]

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.