Bush-Engineering: 10 m Monoband Antenna

Building, or better improvising, when you are Outdoors. Using only your technical skills and the simplest materials to build, develop or manufacture technical equipment - in my case HAM related gizmos - is called "Bush-Engineering"

Today I built a 10 m Monoband Antenna, improvising with the equipment from my Ham-Shack.

Antenna, RG-58 Cable, yellow/gn 1,5mm2 Antenna wire (H07 something) and red extension cordage for mounting

Socketing.... :-)

I am using the socks, filled with stones and tightened up with a reusable cable tie, as a counter weight to mount the antenna.

Flexible system to reconnect or adapt

Connecting antenna wire with the extension cordage, in a flexible way. You still can cut of the ends of the cable for better tuning. I cut two 2,54 m pieces of cable for antenna wire.

Connecting RG-58 cable with the antenna wire.

Wago clamps, use the orange ones, they are designed for flexible cable, so you don't need a cable shoe

RG-58 cable with PL Connector 

Tool's & Parts

I had the antenna connected, SWR&PWR was OK. I´ll try it in the next weeks, outdoors, QSO , I'll keep you informed of the results.


If you do plan Bush-Engineering, what we will practise in the next week, is:

• Don't use Wago clamps, twist the cable
• Don`t use tape, use wood or leaves
• Don`t use H07 cable, use electrical fence wire
• Don't use plastic cordage, use nettle cordage

73!