Build a Double Bazooka | 100 Watts and a Wire

[@BenButler1]

Glad to see this back up and running again. The hams resource is returning!

[@lundsrestaurant2104]

I've ran a 75m double bazooka for 20 years, excellent broadband, low noise antenna. Love seeing your build, 73s w7zho

[@davidg5308]

The master at work - thanks for the post and reminding me to get my little 10m DB back up!

[@BrooklynNYCigarKing]

Great build. Miss you guys.

[@David-hm9ic]

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. Edit: One month later I was given a damaged RadioWavz 80M Double Bazooka. Seems it had a bad encounter with a lawn mower. I don't know the details. The center piece is built on 3/4" PVC parts and is very compact. Upon disassembling it I found that the end caps were filled with generous amounts of silicone sealer (I assume electronics safe) and the entire body was filled about 65%-75% full of epoxy. That epoxy locked in all of the components eliminating any stress on the connections inside the PVC tee.

[@propagating-radio]

Nice build video! Thanks Steve!

[@Giannboy1]

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.✌

[@ky6mm]

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

[@Andy-up6li]

Great video thank for the information on building this antenna. My question to you is would this antenna be good for FT-8?

[@BurninWires]

Thanks very much for that.

[@gtrs4ever]

Thanks for sharing. Where did you get the center T?

[@stephencostelli7155]

Got any video's on how to build a Carolina Windom?

[@sparkybluefox]

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

[@NYCMNYBY]

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?

[@hennero.3826]

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

[@DavidCase-ov5uo]

Please zoom in a bit and please ditch the music. Very distracting even though your voice is clear.

[@davepuckett3197]

Nice!!👍

[@100wattsandawire]

Thanks! 👍

[@kk0dj]

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