2 Meter Amateur Radio Slim Jim Plan

Ham Radio, Hobbies January 18th, 2008

Here are the plan I use for constructing and experimenting with Slim Jim antenna on 2 Meter VHF Amateur band. The measurement used are designed to center around 144-148 MHz radio frequency, which is used by amateur radio world wide.

FYI this is the plan that I use to construct my first ham radio antenna using PVC pipe and aluminium tube.

Credit to Pak Halim and Azmeer for giving this plan and showing me how to construct a proper antenna.

2 Meter Slim Jim using 300 Ohm tv cable (Ribbon Antenna)
Here’s the plan that I use for constructing Slim Jim antenna for portable radio (ICOM V8).

ham radio 2 meter slim jim ribbon antenna

Both design are meant to be fed with 50-Ohm impedance coax feed line (RG-58/RG-8/RG-213) to obtain the most optimized results

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4 Comments to “2 Meter Amateur Radio Slim Jim Plan”

piju | January 22nd, 2008 at 9:21 am

bila nak construct yagi pulak ?
Stuart Longland (VK4FSJL) | February 4th, 2008 at 7:17 am

Hi,

I tried out that 300Î© twin-lead variant of the Slim Jim mentioned on the site, and so far, it seems to be working great.

You have a very easy to follow guide. Cheers for putting it up for the rest of us to see.

Regards,
Stuart Longland
admin | February 4th, 2008 at 9:01 am

Hi there stuart, thanks for leaving comments on my site
Christie | October 14th, 2008 at 6:14 am

Dear Sir I have a pair of ultracom 25 2meter crytal operated ham radios . could tell me what kind of antennas that I should buy , I will be using them as base stations which has to cover a range of about 10 miles . They will be running on simplex the 146.00 to 147.00 band.I am a blind ham and would like to use them as a short ranage comunication systeme.

Thank you ve3HAY