| Wind-up tape measure portable antenna for ham radio…. Dan Maloney KC1DJT writes on Hackaday about how to convert a wind-up tape measure into a portable amateur radio antenna If there’s one thing that amateur radio operators are good at, it’s turning just about anything into an antenna. And hams have a long history of portable operations, too, where they drag a (sometimes) minimalist setup of gear into the woods and set up shop to bag some contacts. Getting the two together, as with this field-portable antenna made from a tape measure, is a double win in any ham’s book. For [Paul (OM0ET)], this build seems motivated mainly by the portability aspect, and less by the “will it antenna?” challenge. In keeping with that, he chose a 50-meter steel tape measure as the basis of the build. Read the Hackaday post and watch the video at: https://hackaday.com/2022/03/30/wind-up-tape-measure-transformed-into-portable-ham-antenna/ |
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