Thanks Tim. Finished a homemade 1:1 balun with 140-43 core and 1mm copperwire and build a 1/4 vertikal today for 20 meters, got it tuned with the help of a VNA. Hopefully I can do some live testing later this week. Used 20 3.5 meters radials made of old network cabel and the ariel is 0.75mm electrik cabel. Mounted on a 5 meter fiberglas fhishing rod and its sitting on my garden fence ground mounted. Nice to see this video on your build. Hope to hear you on 20 meters. 73 and many thanks

The humble 1/4 wave vertical :) They work well and i always take them with me on my DX-expeditions.

Another great video Tim, I love the simplicity of a 1/4 wave vertical and it goes to show our hobby doesn't have to be expensive. Paul M0TZR.

I just built this vertical a few days ago and was very pleased how easy it was to make and how good it works. Thank you for this presentation!

Useful video Tim 👍🏻 Two tips for the viewers: #1 When using the balun for a vertical as in your example, check which side is connected to coax centre and which to the braid, as it’s the centre which makes the vertical element. #2 Often your local radio club has kit for loaning out, so that’s a good way to get your hands on an analyser if they’re a bit too expensive to buy.

Hey Tim, Love the back to basics approach - Yes it works with a little imagination thrown in - some folks throw cash away !!!

Thank you Tim, love these type of videos, simplicity at its finest.

WB4BKO-Ned Interesting video. Very informative. All the necessary details for building a simple, inexpensive and effective antenna. You proved what a friend of mine, now a silent key and a ham for over 60 years, often stated: "if you paid more than $10.00 for antenna parts, you spent too much". Your relaxed and friendly style of presentation is a plus. I have never used a 1:1 balun on a vertical. Usually five to 8 turns of coax wound around a 2" piece of PVC pipe (when using RG58 or RG8X) near the feed point should be adequate to choke off any RF on the feed line. That piece of PVC pipe also works well as the center insulator. Thank you for your video.

Thanks for all of the great videos! You are helping a great many fellow hams!

Another great video, thanks. Particularly interesting for me as I'm station building as a returning ham at present. I was particularly interested in the raised verticals. Some advocate a raised vertial for part of the counterpoise length with the remainder on the ground. Must look into this more.

Some of my best work has been a lash up. Well done Tim.

Thats funny first could not hear your call sign, only after 3 attempts, then he give you 5.9. Good video mate

Lash ups are my speciality, it really is that simple to make a single band aerial, the best sort. Great useful vid, thanks for posting and encouraging hams to get out there and do it for themselves at very little cost and learn a lot too👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻73 de M0AZE.

Thanks Tim, I shall have a go! Taking my Foundation exam on 26 June and have just bought a Yaesu FT-840, can’t wait to get DXing. Thanks again, Marc

Simple simple simple! What it’s all about and we’ll explained.👍☘️

Cheers getting back on the air soon nice and straight forward. Thank you Lee M3NVO

Good video Tim. One of my fave antennas. I think I have a few shown on my basic YT channel too. I have messed about with balanced feeding too for multiband. Another cheap end insulator is a plastic dolly peg (you can cut them up and make a few) - they don’t appear to soften in a microwave so appear to be decent for HF. Cheers

A very simple and reasonably effective antenna, very well explained, as usual. Good job. 73 de VE2DPE Claude

Brilliant Tim, I’m definitely making this and taking it away on holiday. I’ll be close to the sea at Primrose Valley, May 31st. I’ll update you on my progress. 73 M7BCN

Thank you Tim, I enjoy all your videos

Been watching your vids for a while now as an Mw3 license holder your info is invaluable going to get some wire up shortly not sure what as yet mind 👍

Fan....bloomin'......tastic! Excellent little project to do and looks like some great results. Thoroughly enjoyed! 73' and stay safe mate.

Really good video. So good I even watched it twice!

Great video Tim. It really helped me get it into my head the way it works. 2I0FIP

Thank you 👍 I’ve made many wire dipole antennas but no vertical antennas. Must give your design a try 👍

I'll give this a go next month, thanks for sharing!

Your videos are always helpful! Thanks and 73 from KI5UXE

@Tim G5TM: Hi Tim. Just one small point: @ 7:34 “How do we calculate how much wire we need?” The 234 imperial formula includes a 0.95% velocity factor, whilst the 75 metric formula figure you quoted does not. The correct metric formula, including the 0.95% velocity factor, should be 71.25 / f. To advise others who might read my posting, in my own antenna construction experience I have found the 0.95% velocity factor is only a nominal figure, and in real life have always found the velocity factor to be lower - even as low as 0.87% or 0.88%. A combination of various factors affects the velocity factor, such as (i) thickness of antenna wire, (ii) whether or not the wire is insulated, (iii) type of ground beneath the antenna and (iv) height of antenna above ground. In all cases, I have always found that using either formula (both with the built-in 0.95% velocity factor) has resulted in antenna legs that are longer than required, so the legs can easily be shortened to the correct length. Excellent advice from Tim, guys - if you are into serious antenna-building, get yourself an antenna analyser. Far better to spend your money there than on an ATU (which should, of course, really be called an Impedance Matching Device (IMD), which is all it does - it matches the impedance of the antenna to the 50 Ohm impedance of the radio). An ATU does NOT tune an antenna! The biggest "con" in Ham Radio! I hope this helps any newbies, and welcome to them to the hobby. Iain.

Nice job & explanation Tim! TNX. In mountain area each mass in "gram" matters...special in winter time (portable). Have to try out before snow over knees....:-)

Tim , you keep putting out great videos. Thanks 73 ! VE1EPB

Explained extremely well, first time watching your channel, thanks for the info de 2E0SQA

Thanks Tim, going to give this a try looks like a great home made antenna. 73 David W5DPV

Thanks a lot! Noob HAM here from 🇮🇳!! 73 de VU2EHC

Thanks Tim. I built this antenna ,first trip copied R7 , VE, YB , and several Europeans , I was really pleased with it. I would be interested if you could research Ground Tuning Unit for 1/4 wave antennas . Many thanks, Roger G3KMV

Tim, I'm looking at a very similar design. You should give this a try with the ends of the radials at 82cm above the ground and the feed point at 3m above the ground. That's where it seems to model for best performance. Take care.

Fantastic video tim think ill have a go at this one thanks MW7BOI 73,s

Thanks for sharing. I have the DX Commander all band vertical. I find that the swr is high on all bands with 10 meters being unusable even with an external tuner. I like your set up.

So, just out of curiosity, what frequency did you cut for? And what length did you make the radials? Where they the same length as your antenna? Thank you in advance

Nice job Tim, pity the bands are not in good shape, although 10/6M are workable

Tim thanks for the video, very informative, I'd like to give it a try. What do you use for poles? I'd like a permanent solution, I'm not intending to make it portable. Thanks Peter

Works well. Tim great job bud 73

Hi Tim, I have built your 2M EFHW from another video (and it works brilliantly thanks) so I’m going to give this one a go as well Question before I start though, you’ve tied off the radials at what looks like fence/shed height, so is there an optimum height for the ‘inverted v’ created by those 2 radials? Or maybe an optimum angle? Many thanks, Rob 73 M7ASU

What type and height fiberglass mast are you using? Thanks for the great video. 73 KF6EFG

Great Video Tim. Are the two radials the same length as the vertical?

thank u so much sir from india. the length of green wire is 5.28m and the angled grey wire is 2.6m each correct sir

Great video! What mast are you using in this video?

Thanks Tim. Can I ask where your poles are from? Thanks. Peter M0LMG

Good one mate. I’ll try this for 15m.

Just one late question here, Tim. Are you making your radials the same length as your element? Thx for the video. Just what I was looking for. Brent VA7HUM

I’m hoping to create a 2 m Multi element vertical dipole To use as a base station antenna at home I would like for all of the elements to be in phase so that they all radiate at the same time I just don’t know how to create the wiring harness to attach it all to get it to work correctly Any recommendations or advice would be greatly appreciated

Nice one Tim… I’m gonna try this out next as I’m always exploring different ways to make portable lightweight antennas for SOTA. Have you tried this with the feed point and radials down nearer the ground?

Hi Tim! Thanks for sharing your experience. I build a lot of vertical antenna and i have a question: why balun? Vertical antenna should be already unbalanced. Best 73 de iw2hus, Franco

Tim, thanks, I've just come across this as looking to build my first antenna and this is incredibly useful - I've only used bought antennas thus far, and this is a great first. Out of curiosity, would you think that the same design with appropriate proportions work well for 40m? Although I suppose that the radials length might be a bit prohibitive within your constraints (which are similar to mine).

Thanks

Would this work if the radials were at 90 degrees to each other rather than 180?

Hello Tim I also have a small back yard would a 40m inverted Vee with manual perform better than 9:1 unun 54’ vertical wire. Trying to also have multiband capabilities? Inverted vee feed 30’

Hi Tim. Have you done any vids on FT-8? I was wondering when setting up what you put in for grid ref?

Just watched this - very useful thanks. Will give it a try. One thing, is your conversion factor for wire length in metres correct at 75/f? One foot = 0.3048 m so 234/f for feet converts to 71.3/f for metres. Just curious!

Hi, can the anntenna be mounted at ground level or just above with the radials lyeing flat on the ground?

the 1/4 wave vertical is a magical antenna, i'd be interested to know how you found the noise levels compared to other antennas on the same band. 73 G7KDM

Hi tim good video , but you missed telling us how to work out the length of the radials , please update thanks

Nice well done :-)

Nice and practical! At a few points I thought I'd see a GW call :) 73 de Dafydd DJ0MZ

Tim, Looks like you have neighbours nearby. Whats the EMC situation like with this antenna for you? Pete

I make one for operater on my eletricvheelschair i make T2LT my vhoque have 7 turns work well 73 PY1AX TONY QRV

Nice simple build and very well explained, how high is the tip of the vertical element from the ground ?

Hi Tim. what length were the radials to start, same 1/4 wave as the element? Thanks, Brent VA7HUM

Can you use any wire for vertical element?2E0KTX. Kev

Great job Tim. Any chance you can provide a link to the supplier of the 1:1 choke balun?

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is the length of the radials the same as the element? I plan on using 4. Thanks

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Hi, what poles are those? Cheers!

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Would a 9.1 unun ?