J-pole Flowers
The latter half of December 2025 had me playing around with the 2-meter J-pole some more, starting with replacing the crushed copper tubing feed clamps with more durable ones made from brass strip.
But for some reason, the resonant frequency was much too high no matter how I adjusted the clamps, so I started playing around with capacitive hats.
My experimentation eventually led me to making hats that look kind of like flower petals, as that's what I saw when looking around online at the time.
