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If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEy7jNu8wMc This is post 2506 in a continuing series of simple ham radio antennas. How would you like to build a sensitive, effective 70 cm Satellite Antenna at minimum cost? You can build this antenna based on a design from Richard F. Crow (N2SPI) in just a few hours using many common materials around your home. A producer for "Branvini Films" explains just how easy it is to make a cheap, effective UHF Satellite Antenna: Here is Richard F. Crow, N2SPI's "Cheap Yagi for 70cm" from his 2006 article entitled, "Build this Cheap and Easy Satellite Downlink Antenna" on Amsat.org. I built this in one evening after dinner, and did a time lapse so you could see how easy this project reall is to build. Total cost is about $30. It's beam is made of foam poster-board and the elements are #8 AWG wire, and a radio connector. Here are