Just back from holidays and while testing my new ham radio toy, the buddipole antenna, I’ve done an interesting QSO with YO3FXL Mihali about bazooka antennas on 17 meters band. He told me that his roof is plenty of monoband dipoles, generic dipoles, and he is using a bazooka antenna for 17 meters.
According to him, the bazooka antennas outperforms dipoles, and that he is going to dismiss in this summer all his dipoles in favour of the equivalent bazooka type.
I’ve heard and read someting about this antennas, but never gone in deep with technical specifications. They really looks interesting, for those who looks for cheeap and easy to build antennas.
Here you can find some bazooka antenna plans
Hi, interesting site, just today i’ve built 2 Bazooka antennas for the VHF and UHF bands.
I discovered a really good performance and i tried to invert the 2 antennas to test the bandwidth.
Each antenna should be work inside his frequency range, like a “canalized” antenna, if i use the VHF one on the UHF range it works really bad and vice-versa.
How do you think about this kind of antenna?
Thanks