52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2025 - Week 33: Build an antenna and make a contact with it.

Challenge for 2025-08-11 - 2025-08-17:

Category: 🛠️ - Difficulty: 🟠

Build an antenna and make a contact with it.
What type of antenna did you build and why? How did you come up with the dimensions? Which bands does the antenna work on?


Toots mentioning this challenge

DateUserUser scoreStatusToot summary & link
2025-03-14 10:46:46dd1mat@mastodon.social9Success!The BCC spring QSO party was a nice opportunity to meet many of the fellow BCC members. Thanks @DJ5CW for 80M #cw contact. Regarding the #hamchallenge, time to tick off the challenges HC06S, HC30S, HC33S and HC38S
2025-03-17 20:34:10n8dmt@mastodon.radio16Success!#HamChallenge HC33S Build an antenna and make a contact with it. Built a 2m halo horizontally polarized loop antenna to try to make local 2m SSB contacts. Referred to KP4MD’s QSL webpage on halo antennas. Used #14 solid wire and a SO-239 connector. Tuned match point with NanoVNA-H4 to get close then tweaked wire-ends spacing to be even better. This is not an outside antenna in current form. Completed a quick FM test QSO with W9ELG in Elgin, IL. #HamRadio

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