michel wrote:
Hello all,

As a new Novice amateur I am considering to build my first antenna.
I know that starting with a j-pole is simple and easy. However. I see many
plans on the internet.

One of interest is the stacked 5/8 wave j-pole.
I only see this in a stacked version. In a not stacked way I only see the
half wave version with a quarter stub.

Can a 5/8 wave length and 1/2 wave stub work as a real 5/8 wave antenna?

Looking forward for any suggestion!





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The homemade (very crude) 1/2 wave with a 1/4 wave matching section that
I described in another article easily made great contacts from
Pennsville, NJ (Wilmington, DE) to Philadelphia on simplex with ease. It
was even indoors when I did it and I was running 10 watts or less. That
is about a 30 mile distance. Mine was constructed of two pieces of #8
aluminum grounding wire stuck into two holes drilled into a piece of 2x4
as a base, sitting on my table a few feet away from my rig inside of the
house. That was good enough for me to hold QSO's on FM and sideband with
all of my Philadelphia friends (WA3RXE and several others).


Ed Cregger