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General Category => Off Topics and General Interest => Topic started by: leshoman on December 04, 2018, 07:42:01 AM

Title: Radio Antenna for Legal Eagles and Hand Held Radio
Post by: leshoman on December 04, 2018, 07:42:01 AM

Radio Antenna used on Legal Eagle ORV with excellent results.

Title: Re: Radio Antenna for Legal Eagles and Hand Held Radio
Post by: Tom H on December 06, 2018, 07:01:43 AM

We use the inverted V antenna like Les's attachment on the Double Eagle Stubby.  Works great.  When we needed an antenna for the recently restored Radial Eagle, I searched for these plans, and found the plans for an updated version 3 (attached).  I built an antenna based on those plans and it, too, works great.

The original version uses a Pawley stub matching element in the design, made from coax.

The Version 3 uses ferrite chokes as the matching element.  The designer says this version is more stable.  He gives a source for the chokes, but I searched and found some cheap ones on ebay.