{"id":11129,"date":"2010-05-05T23:09:38","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T21:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/blog\/?p=11129"},"modified":"2023-09-26T16:38:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:38:35","slug":"home-made-yagi-antenna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/diy\/home-made-yagi-antenna\/","title":{"rendered":"Home made Yagi antenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fabricYagiinpark1b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-11130\" title=\"fabricYagiinpark1b\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fabricYagiinpark1b-426x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"555\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One of my favorite ham radio activities is making contacts on satellites. It&#8217;s really fun to know that you&#8217;re controlling something that&#8217;s receiving and sending communications from space. But communicating with satellites means carrying a big <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yagi_antenna\">Yagi antenna<\/a> around. So, I decided to use my fashion sewing skills to make a collapsible fabric Yagi antenna that&#8217;s much easier to transport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You can only transmit radio if you have a ham radio license, but you can listen to communications on satellites without a license. If you don&#8217;t have a license, you only need to build the receiving part of the antenna. You can read all about how to listen to satellites in my previous post, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2009\/07\/catching_satellites_on_ham_radio.html\">Catching satellites on ham radio<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>This antenna design is based on one by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wa5vjb.com\/yagi-pdf\/cheapyagi.pdf\">Kent Britain WA5VJB<\/a> [PDF link].<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2010\/05\/collapsible_fabric_yagi_antenna.html#more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Source<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favorite ham radio activities is making contacts on satellites. It&#8217;s really fun to know that you&#8217;re controlling something that&#8217;s receiving and sending communications from space. But communicating with satellites means carrying a big Yagi antenna around. So, I decided to use my fashion sewing skills to make a collapsible fabric Yagi antenna&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,219,490,504],"class_list":["post-11129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy","tag-antenna","tag-home-made","tag-uhf","tag-vhf","category-2","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cqdx.ru\/ham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}