https://kd3ee.johnflinchbaugh.com/tags/flowerpot/ Recent content in Flowerpot on John Flinchbaugh KD3EE Hugo en Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kd3ee.johnflinchbaugh.com/post/2026-02-17-t2lt-flowerpot-antenna/ Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://kd3ee.johnflinchbaugh.com/post/2026-02-17-t2lt-flowerpot-antenna/ <p>I&rsquo;ve been curious about the <a href="https://hamradiodx.net/easy-to-build-2-meter-146-mhz-vertical-antenna/">T2LT &ldquo;flower pot&rdquo; antenna</a> for a while. It&rsquo;s fed from the bottom and attached to a sturdy PVC pole. I can easily hoist it into a tree, and it has a low wind load, so it could go on top of a flag pole again.</p> <p>I built it at the SPARC Elmer night from some 75-ohm TV cable I had laying around. I taped and cable-tied it to a thin bit of PVC, and I adapted the feed point from 75ohm TV cable connector to SMA. I had built it long to allow tuning, but it tested to be just about right for 146MHz when I put the VNA on it.</p> <div class="gallery caption-position-bottom caption-effect-slide hover-effect-zoom hover-transition" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageGallery"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://kd3ee.johnflinchbaugh.com/css/hugo-easy-gallery.css" /> <div class="box" > <figure itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"> <div class="img" style="background-image: url('https://kd3ee.johnflinchbaugh.com//img/2026/2026-02-17-t2lt.jpg');"> <img itemprop="thumbnail" src="https://kd3ee.johnflinchbaugh.com/img/2026/2026-02-17-t2lt.jpg" alt="choke on t2lt"/> </div> <a href="https://kd3ee.johnflinchbaugh.com/img/2026/2026-02-17-t2lt.jpg" itemprop="contentUrl"></a> <figcaption> <p>choke on t2lt</p> </figcaption> </figure> </div> <div class="box" > <figure itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject"> <div class="img" style="background-image: url('https://kd3ee.johnflinchbaugh.com//img/2026/2026-02-17-t2lt-installed.jpg');"> <img itemprop="thumbnail" src="https://kd3ee.johnflinchbaugh.com/img/2026/2026-02-17-t2lt-installed.jpg" alt="t2lt installed"/> </div> <a href="https://kd3ee.johnflinchbaugh.com/img/2026/2026-02-17-t2lt-installed.jpg" itemprop="contentUrl"></a> <figcaption> <p>t2lt installed</p> </figcaption> </figure> </div> </div>