A plastic element insulator hold the dipole segments on a 1"x1" square tube boom. The feed point connection was carefully protected with a layer of rubber tape and on top of it is an electrical tape for UV and water protection.
A fabricated bracket will hold the antenna boom and this was made of a thick plastic material, the one used here was a chopping board 5mm in thick.
A close up view of the coaxial power divider during initial tuning and testing.
A quick frequency sweep was made to evaluate the antenna SWR after the trimming of dipole segments. The antenna bandwidth was quite narrow for this design and I was able to obtain an SWR value of 1:1.2 across 92MHz to 93MHz only.
During testing, the two dipoles were spaced 1 wavelength horizontally and was 1 meter above the ground just only to evaluate the SWR and tune the antenna while at the ground. When installed permanently, this antenna is expected to yield 3dBd of gain theoretically. 73 de du1vss
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