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>[My Ham Radio Journey] wanted to see if a “common person” (in his words) could build an effective vertical ham radio antenna. If you look at the video below, the answer is apparently yes. He started with a 24-foot fishing rod and a roll of 22 gauge wire. The height of the antenna wire is just over 20 feet long and he has several ground radials, as you might expect for a vertical antenna. You also need a toroid to make an unun for the feed point. The details of how he mounted everything will be useful if you want to experiment with making your own version.

Archive: https://archive.today/vDvNj From the post: >>[My Ham Radio Journey] wanted to see if a “common person” (in his words) could build an effective vertical ham radio antenna. If you look at the video below, the answer is apparently yes. He started with a 24-foot fishing rod and a roll of 22 gauge wire. The height of the antenna wire is just over 20 feet long and he has several ground radials, as you might expect for a vertical antenna. You also need a toroid to make an unun for the feed point. The details of how he mounted everything will be useful if you want to experiment with making your own version.
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The part that throws me off is the grounding. I understand the concept of tossing a string of wire as high up a tree as you can, but the end where you ground it throws me off. We get a lot of lightning here, and I can't help but think I'm just creating a lightning rod

[–] • 1 pt

You need some sort of arrestor to take care of that. Feeling the line directly into your receiver isn't a good thing.

[–] • 1 pt

You'll need to show me what you mean and how it's done some day. I'm dumb about electrical stuff

[–] • 0 pt

Something like this:

https://www.proxicast.com/shopping/antenna-accessories/lightning-arresters/#

They're basically gas filled devices, you get anything more than your normal signal levels (aka lightning) the gas inside ionizes and conducts like a neon sign.