WORKSHOP - MAKING FOX HUNTING ANTENNAS

In preparation for FOX HUNTING the club held a workshop to build simple 2M antennas

The idea was simple, we wanted to re-establish fox hunting in the club but the newer members didn't have a clue about how to do it.

Some training was necessary.

First we had to build a small 3 element yagi beam resonant 145.300Mhz (that's the 2M Australian Direction Finding Frequency).

The antenna had to be small and portable so it could be thrown in the back of the car whilst we tracked down the fox.

VK4JM searched out some simple beam designs and we all met on a Saturday afternoon to build them.


Our task: To take this raw material	And do some calculations	Measure & mark the aluminium
Barra takes care of cutting	Drilling the insulation plates	Bob & Joe cut individual plates
Rusty checks them for size	Ross and Dennis take care of soldering	And crimping connectors
Dennis fits the coax	Dan makes supports	Joe has one assembled