Hi All !!

As of Dec -2011 I began using a homemade antenna following the TAK design.

Made out of sched. 40 pvc and 1/8 in air conditioning copper tubing

A picture of the antenna during testing should be visible above.

Very simple and no matching coils or connections that can go bad feeding 35 feet of rg 58 and

an fr choke before going into the radio connection. A pic. is worth a thousand words. 73"s