4m Flower Pot Antenna

Here is a link to his webpage with instructions for making several of his designs.

4m flower pot antenna. The wx made fine tuning very brief but long enough to get the swr to an acceptable 1 4 1. The diagram below shows the basic arrangement of the 2m half wave version of the antenna. I saw the vk2zoi flower pot antenna mentioned on the arnsw website so i wrote to john bishop and asked for his documentation on the antenna.

A few years ago a made one of vk2zoi s dual band flowerpot antennas. 2m 70cm dual band half wave flower pot antenna. Other suggestions were made at the time included making a fake patio umbrella but the name flower pot has stuck for the last 14 or so years.

Flower pot antenna. 145mhz x 3 435mhz that s 2m to 70cm or vhf to uhf. In this clip i show you my antenna built using the flowerpot designs as found online.

Let s start with the material design and test itself. They are end fed coaxial dipoles with an interesting design to make them dual band and colinear for increased gain. John replied quickly with three detailed articles about his antenna and extracted a promise from me to document my.

I was surprised how well it worked and a few others tried it and found it worked very well. Its a good sunday morning project using minimal tools and ma. The flowerpot works well as a scanner antenna for vhf and uhf listening.

It had been about 10 years since i used 2 metres actively. I ve found a. To construct the antenna first select a suitable length of grey 25mm conduit as a minimum 1m but if you make it longer you will have more room below the coil to attach to your antenna support.