How to make a Dipole Antenna for your FM Transmitter

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How to Make a Dipole FM Transmitter Antenna

Materials

  • 1 - 6’ length steel cable. (Romex cable or other stiff copper wire also works)
  • 1 - 8’ length 1” PVC pipe
  • 1 - PVC 1” T- connector
  • 2 - PVC 1” end caps
  • 1 - PVC 1” 90-degree corner connector
  • 2 - 8” zip ties
  • 2 - 1” diameter washers (same diameter as PVC pipe. The hole in the washer must be smaller than the locking end of a zip tie yet large enough for the flat zip tie to fit through.
  • Television coax extension cable (with connectors) in the length you’ll need from your transmitter to the antenna.
  • Optional: 2-3” of shrink tubing
  • Optional: 2 pipe clamps (to fit around the PVC pipe)
  • Optional: choke core balun to fit the coax cable
  • Optional: PVC cement
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