The day after I passed the General exam I was given a Radio Wavz 20M double bazooka. Friends that have been at my house since then are blown away by its performance. I have contacts all over the US, as far south as Brazil and as far east as Slovenia - all on 100 watts! If I can hear them clearly they say I'm booming. I've even had solid contacts with a 5/4 signal strength report.
@BenButler17 ай бұрын
Glad to see this back up and running again. The hams resource is returning!
@lundsrestaurant21046 ай бұрын
I've ran a 75m double bazooka for 20 years, excellent broadband, low noise antenna. Love seeing your build, 73s w7zho
@davidg53086 ай бұрын
The master at work - thanks for the post and reminding me to get my little 10m DB back up!
@BrooklynNYCigarKing7 ай бұрын
Great build. Miss you guys.
@Giannboy16 ай бұрын
A great video up until the end. Hoped you would have concluded with how it's set up and explaining why it's called a bazooka. I'm totally new to building antennas and am looking for much help with design and finishing the project. Thanks for your tutorial! The video and audio were very good. Only one point where your head covered what you were doing.✌
@propagating-radio7 ай бұрын
Nice build video! Thanks Steve!
@Andy-up6li24 күн бұрын
Great video thank for the information on building this antenna. My question to you is would this antenna be good for FT-8?
@ky6mm7 ай бұрын
Thanks for the great tutorial Steve. Can you show how you tuned that antenna? I'm assuming you'd use a VNA of some sort. 73 de KD6FTR
@sparkybluefox6 ай бұрын
Hello Steve , I love this video , very well done. But I respectfully offer a suggestion. When I used to do low budget industrial training videos, I would periodically stop the presenter and take some still photos of "the thing/process" being presented by the host and in post-production blend in the close up still photos to enhance the learning experience for the viewer. No cost , easy, and a way better way to focus on the details of the work. 73 SBF
@hennero.38262 ай бұрын
Thank you. 🙂 Could you share the link to the document with the lengths? And - as I am not a native English speaker, I did not get what that black material is called that you applied first (I do not know the word, so I do not know how to write it and to what it translates in German). How is it called? 73 de DO1HNR
@BurninWires6 ай бұрын
Thanks very much for that.
@NYCMNYBYАй бұрын
Must the length of radiating COAX at the middle where the COAX braid is cut and pulled back to connect to a feed line (Where the center conductor remans untouched in the dielectric) be of a specific length? Reference preparing the blue tape at the center section of the COAX at 2:36 in the video. How much COAX Braid must exposed and cut, and how long must the untouched center conductor be? I would like to prepare a center connecting point using two SO-239 connectors that are wired to the center, and braid of the feed line cable, with the center of each SO-239 connector soldered together with a jumper wire The purpose is to build individual band specific Double Bazooka antennas for 10, 15, and 20 Meters simply by connecting prepared COAX radiators to a center attachment point via PL-259 connectors on each radiating COAX. Hence my questing regarding what must the length of center conductor be the radiating COAX at its middle?
@stephencostelli71557 ай бұрын
Got any video's on how to build a Carolina Windom?
@davepuckett31976 ай бұрын
Nice!!👍
@100wattsandawire6 ай бұрын
Thanks! 👍
@kk0dj7 ай бұрын
If you can afford it, consider a camera stand to position it above what you're working on. Couldn't see the details of your build very well
@DavidCase-ov5uo4 ай бұрын
Please zoom in a bit and please ditch the music. Very distracting even though your voice is clear.