Coke can satcom antenna

[L-10]

Has anyone ever attempted to build a coke can satcom antenna? If you have...How did you do it?

[chance]

Why a Coke can? If you do a search on here there is a great post on improvised antenna's

[L-10]

I already made the expedient satcom and it worked perfect. The thing is I keep hearing about some commo guy or JTAC made one out of a coke can down range and I wanted to know how this was accomplished.

[Electron]

I made an expedient antenna from metal coat hangars that worked pretty good. Not coke cans though. I'd like to see it if anyone can post a photo.

[frostfire]

I can see it in my mind. Can't find the exact picture, but most likely something like this

[msyms]

I've made one using the same principle as Electron's antenna. In the one pictured I have a 1/8λ in a soup can. Using a 117F at 20W I had 64 RSSI. Before the soup can I had a monster can with ~45 RSSI. Now if we're using an urban set up and don't want a x-wing hanging out we just use a coffee tin which usually allows for 1/4λ and hits mid 80s consistently. The soup can and monster can were both out done simply by using the radio as the refractor.


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