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The repurposed tv antenna 2 meter slimjim project.


Having read a lot about slim jim antennas, and being impressed with the 6db gain they have, I decided to try my hand and putting one together.

Now I am frugal and am a bit of a scrounger. I didn't want to invest a lot of money in copper pipe and I had an old VHF TV antenna that was wind damaged. Its a yagi style with the reflector element being 2 u shaped peices of aluminum vaguely resembling a trombone slide. Their are 2 of those and  neither one was damaged except at the base where they attached to the boom. I proceeded to cut them off the boom. cut them to size and  attach them together to make a slimjim. our local repeater is at 145.13 mhz so the slim jim was made to the following specs.


slimjim diagram slimjim-pvc