Our activity was making a Tape Measure 2M Yagi followed the directions at N5DUX's 2M Tape Measure Yagi
Antenna Page
We also had four volunteers to actually build the antennas. Charlie, K3SR; Ken, KN4VKN; Eric, AJ4LN; and Evan, KM4SK.
The group. Paul, KK4AIA, is sitting at the extreme left, and John, KK4AHY, is sitting at the extreme right.
Steve, KN4BGW, sitting and Charlie, K3SR, picking up something from the floor.
Eric, AJ4LN, tinning the driven element. We used pieces cut from a tape measure for the yagi antenna elements.
Evan, KM4SK, looking at the directions. The directions from N5DUX's 2M Tape Measure Yagi Antenna Page were excellent.
Charlie, K3SR, has his antenna almost fully assembled.
Evan, KM4SK, is soldering. It looks like his is tinning the hairpin match wire.
Eric, AJ4LN, is tightening the pipe connectors to hold the yagi elements on the PVC pipe boom. Notice he taped the ends of the antenna elements, made from a tape measure, to reduce the cutting hazard from the sharp ends.
Kevin, W4KLS, and John, KK4AHY, taking it easy. The blue thing is a soldering iron, and Kevin's antenna tuner is just to the right of it.
Evan, KM4SK, holding the wires wwhile Kevin, W4KLS, is soldering.
Eric, AJ4LN, displaying the coax and hairpin match connections to the driven element of the antenna.
The folded up antenna. Ready for storing or transport.
The finished 2M Tape Measure Antenna.
Closeup of the driven element showing the hairpin match (the yellow insulated solid wire), the black coax connection and the black tape around the pipe and coax to serve as a strain relief to prevent accidently pulling the coax off the soldering joint.
The other side of the antenna showing the marking from the tape measure.
This was great fun.
We will have to do this again with another type of antenna.