Going Homebrew

My next antenna (April 2025) was a basic wire dipole with a sleeve balun.

Wire dipole with sleeve balun

Feed point of the wire dipole

It also didn't end up working well enough for my use on the intended 6-meter band, unfortunately.

NanoVNA showing unusable SWR at 52.4 MHz, but a couple of promising SWR dips that I didn't pursue at the time

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