Ridiculously easy 70 CM Ground plane antenna

ri·dic·u·lous

rəˈdikyələs/

adjective. deserving or inviting derision or mockery; absurd. 

1. "when you realize how ridiculous easy to build this antenna is, you will have to laugh"

This antenna I threw together with a bunch of stuff I had lying around. I measured under 1.1 swr on 70cm and pumped 40 watts into it for some test transmissions. 

Materials:

BNC solder on bulkhead connector

ring lugs

solid copper wire. I used 14 guage romex

I used this online calculator to get the length of the quarter wave whip and the radials

http://www.csgnetwork.com/antennagpcalc.html

shove the ends of the ground plane elements into the ring lugs.

solder the radiator into the bnc center pin

I cut everything long and trimmed them to adjust the swr.

the radiating element I bent into a loop to hang the antenna and just kept winding it until it tuned down the the frequency I wanted.