My successful attempt at polarised antennas

[Andy-E]

So I had a bit of spare time today which soon turned into boredom so I nipped to Maplin and bought the needed things and got my teeth into making some antennas. Pretty damn easy to be fair and all done in about 3hours. I';ve tested them and all is good. Now just to take her out for a fly at the weekend to test distance. Really quite proud of myself

[bazzerh]

Nice! Very satisfying building stuff yourself that works eh? Pretty rare in my case.

If you want to strengthen those up add a blob of clear epoxy over the weak points. Quidland sell some that will do the trick. Over that for a nice some black liquid electrical tape looks good

[benno]

Andy-E - Your shopping list would be good to get a look at, passing maplin tomorrow.

[Andy-E]

Nice! Very satisfying building stuff yourself that works eh? Pretty rare in my case.

If you want to strengthen those up add a blob of clear epoxy over the weak points. Quidland sell some that will do the trick. Over that for a nice some black liquid electrical tape looks good

It is very satisfying mate I love it.
I was going to put hot glue on it but I heard it reduces the signal so I';m leaving it naked

[Andy-E]

Andy-E - Your shopping list would be good to get a look at, passing maplin tomorrow.

Well mine is for fat shark 5.8ghz so I got:
2 reverse polarity SMA plugs RG58 £2.89 each
1 meter of RG58 coaxial cable £1.49
They do have copper wire on small rolls all different thicknesses but it';s £9 per roll and only needed about 10inch so I stole some mig welding wire from a friends garage.
The rest is just solder and heat shrink which I already had.

[Andy-E]

They didn';t have any RG316 which would';ve been better

[flybywire]

Watch out Gav!!

Very neat.

[forest]

Nice

[guest2350]

very nice! well done!