I think the term ‘Flowerpot’ antenna came from the idea that you should be able to fit a 50MHz vertical dipole in a reasonably sized flowerpot and get on-air in a stealthy manner 😎🤓

Essentially it’s a piece of high quality RG-58 coax cut so there’s almost an equal length of inner conductor with the screen part removed, and a part with the screen still present. At the bottom, a coil made from that same cable on a 50mm circular plastic tubing/pipe terminates the antenna. Dead simple, and it works!

I built the 6m version a couple of years back and worked stations across Europe at #QRP levels, so this year I decided to try the 10m version, inspired by #VK1AD. Andrew built his to center at SSB, I decided to move mine slightly downwards in frequency because I’m mainly a CW-Kitty 🐱🙂

It turned out really well, at least if you ask my #nanovna ☺️

On-air tests will follow later this week 👌🏻👍🏼

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