Comment on Made myself a flowerpot antenna for my HT!
linuxguy@piefed.ca 5 days ago
Is your coax TV/video coax? If so, be careful with that because the impedance is likely 75ohm and your HT very likely expects 50ohm. How big of a problem that is is up to you to research/decide.
If you don’t have appropriate coax some things you could try: * Adding a tiger tail to the existing antenna (assuming you could reassemble it) * getting higher up * If you can’t reassemble the OG antenna, use the connector and solder the dipole radiators to it directly
Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
It was coax for a tv antenna, RG6 if i do recall. After some research its not ideal for ham as you said 50ohm is what the radio expects. So i will be loosing some signal because of the ohm differences.
I still get alot more range compared to my whip antenna.
Im very much a novice in this regard, so please do let me know if there is something im missing!
Thanks for your insight aswell!