A Homebrew Four Element 2 Metre Portable Yagi Antenna
If you want a simple, inexpensive 2 meter Yagi Antenna for home or portable use, then this project from Tony Breathnach (EI5EM) is for you. Tony shows us how to design and make this basic antenna with locally available parts. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6y6ecQDhh0 This is post 2783 in a continuing series of simple ham radio antennas. Here are some comments from Tony: This video clip describes my build of a four element 2m portable amateur band Yagi antenna. The antenna has a single reflector and two directors along with the driven dipole element. For the boom, I used a scrap offcut of 25mm plastic (cable) trunking with a clip-on lid. I used 1,000mm lengths of 4mm threaded steel bar for the elements The video shows detailed photographs of the build followed by testing at two locations for transmit and receive. Full dimentions of the element lengths and spacing are given. This is a simple, in