Today is the most historic day of my ham life. Why? I managed to assemble a Homebrew antenna for 2M band. It's a J-Pole!! . I’ve tested the antenna on 6th March 2009 at 2200 GMT (Malaysia). I’ve tried transmitting from my base station, located at Tambun, Ipoh (N4 37.582 E101 08.952) to Bukit Larut, ASTRA 9MX244 Repeater (N4 51.711 E100 47.587). Using J-Pole, transmitting at 5 watt, I manage to break in and start conversation with 9W2DKL and 9M2NM (Pak Nordin). Signal report has been requested and 9M2NM reported that he got my audio at readability 4 and 5. That’s good news. Days before, I tried using telescopic antenna and mobile antenna, transmitting with 5 watt, I can’t even get feedback from the repeater.
For me, the overall cost in making this antenna are not really cheap, but if to compare with other commercial antenna that provide the same performance, I can say it is quite cheap and reasonable. Worth every cent you spend. To be exact, the cost is about RM 82 for the antenna. Actually that’s the price of the material only, if combine with the tools I just bought exclusively for this project, it’s already exceed RM200. Adoyai!!
Anyway, as I said just now, it is worth the money. I don’t mind spending a little too much off my budget for the excitement assembling the antenna and the excitement using the antenna to the max! hehe.
I like to share my experience in making this antenna right here, right now, but I really need to rest (exhausted being excited). I will post the report of my antenna assembling processes later. At the meantime, you can view the photos.
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Thank you.
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