Simple $3.00 Ham Radio Antenna. 2M Moxon

I had the opportunity to find some old Camping stools from SAVERS, a local thrift store, so I destroyed them and made a Moxon antenna!

I have heard the stories of a Lawn chair dipole and Yagi - (Check out    • The Lawn Chair Dipole - Will It Antenna?   for Ham Radio Crash Course's Lawn Chair Dipole) or https://qsysociety.org/2009/01/04/6-m... for a 6 meter lawn chair moxon (This idea is nothing new)

Links referenced:

Antenna Top Moxon build instructions (VERY GOOD INSTRUCTIONS) - These instructions are super easy to understand and the detail that is gone into is not overly complicated : http://www.antentop.org/w4rnl.001/mvh...


Moxon calculator in multiple measurements (Inches, Feet, MM, etc) - http://tippete.net/cgi-bin/moxgen.pl


I forgot to mention why this Moxon really wasn't $3.00:

the metals were $3.00, but nuts and bolts cost me 11.50 cents. I used stainless steel nuts and bolts.

The coax was RG59 which was laying around. The PVC I also had laying around. I would still say this could be built for less than 20.

I will have the spacers available on Thingiverse in the future.

In FULL clarity: My motivation from that spacer came from my Hygain 5 element Yagi, which uses a cool, similar piece. I have a few ideas for the future improvement.

I realize this is a long video, but I wanted to document how i went through this build, in order to help others. I openly admit that I am in pursuit of knowledge every day and I am just as wet behind the ears as most, but I ENJOY this kind of learning and I know others do as well.

Thank You for watching.