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Homemade 2M Yagi Tape Measure
November 24th, 2012 | 
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I made my first antenna. It’s a 2 meter yagi using the recipe on this web page: http://www.ccars.org/Projects/TapeYagi/index.htm
It works but not quite as well as I expected. After my first test, I found a stray strand of wire shorting the center and shield conductors where I separated them. I fixed that and am waiting to re-test. I’ll follow up with the results from that test.
After fixing my stray wire, I got much better performance and it works great!
General Test Passed!
Today at the NW Arkansas Hamfest, I took the General test and passed! I am planning on participating on Field Day and will probably get my first contacts on HF then.
Note: The FCC database shows me as a General License holder now on 6/11/2012
