I use them both (not at the same time) for my main antenna right now, until I can get a full size dipole hung up, and coax run to the house etc. I made the Buddistick first, then later made the Buddipole. I like making things, and decided to give his antennas a shot after deciding that I might be able to actually make an antenna that worked following Budd’s directions. I knew when I started building my station that I wanted a couple of portable antennas. His plans can be found on his page located here. He worked 48 states (missing ND and WY), and 58 DXCC entities in 17 zones in just a few days of operation.In a couple earlier posts, I wrote about making a homebrew Buddistick using Budd Drummand’s (W3FF) plans. The author made 977 contacts on this antenna including 808 in the CQ WPX SSB contest (794 unique stations after duplicates were removed). Pure resistive load, no reactance, resonant. The small green line along the real axis between 50 and 75 Ohms is the plot for the antenna. Thomas in March of 2010 (Figures 2 and 3). The two plots below are from the author’s installation on St. SWR and 2:1 BandwidthĪ properly tuned antenna will provide a good match across the band. The author found that even guesses (no rulers) for the element lengths were good enough for creating a good match. Make small adjustments to the reflector to tune. Extend each whip to full length, then retract the outer-most section 6 or 7 inches. The lengths of the elements are such that the antenna can be tuned easily. Use the second RAK knob to secure the antenna to the mast.
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