Improvised Field Comms - The Jungle Antenna

In this episode, we'll take a look at increasing the performance of your HT with the "Jungle Antenna". It's a field expedient, quarter wave ground plane antenna.

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0:00 Introduction
1:34 HT Radio Test
2:34 First Jungle Antenna Deployment
9:25 First Jungle Antenna Test
12:07 Second Jungle Antenna Deployment
15:28 Third Jungle Antenna Deployment
16:03 After Action Report: Introduction
17:01 After Action Report: Why the Jungle Antenna
18:21 After Action Report: My Jungle Antenna Design
21:39 After Action Report:: Member Suggestions
22:49 After Action Report: The Antenna Build
29:07 Close

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