Bill Sykes and Bob Cobey produced one of the best home-build designs for a weather satellite antenna. Unfortunately, their website is no longer active.
Their instructions were easy to follow and the result is a robust QFH antenna that is tuned for the centre of the 137MHz weather satellite band. The only problem I encountered was the mast drilling template which didn’t print at the correct size. Whilst it’s relatively easy to resize the template using graphics software, I thought it might be helpful if I created a correctly sized PDF document to simplify the printing.
Use the link below to download the PDF and, when you print it, make sure your printer is set to print ‘actual size’. You will often find printers are set to ‘zoom to fit’ or similar but you need to select ‘actual size’ or the printer will resize the printed document.
This link seems to be dead.
…..antenna on their web site at: QFH Antenna.
Hi Chuck,
Thanks for letting me know. That resource seems to have disappeared, which is a shame. I’ll leave my template in case it’s useful but delete the link.
Regards,
Mike