 Hello everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Sibdel Defense, and we're back with another edition of American Minuteman gear. And today's piece of gear is the antenna kit. I built this kit to build field expedient antennas. You know, we kind of do have a love-hate relationship with radios, and there are times when you might need to use a radio to message a long way beyond what your Handheld can potentially do just on its own. So this allows you to build a field expedient antenna such as a jungle antenna and Rig that up so that you can then you know reach those longer distances or set something up in the event after a natural disaster Or whatever any time you would want to build a field expedient antenna for whatever it is that you're doing This is the kit that you can build fairly cheap honestly on your own So I'll have some links down to Amazon below and let's go through it and see what we got Okay, all in the kit is pretty simple This is just some kind of canvas like bag that I just labeled which I'm sure you can probably read here, right? I just labeled antenna kit so I know what it is And everything fits inside this this bag here, and this is probably about I don't know four or five inches by like nine Or ten inches so it fits inside a rock pretty well, which is nice because you know again It needs to be transportable right so we have the bag I have two cobra heads which are used for building the antenna You'll need one But I have two in here because they came in a packet to and I don't have two antenna kits yet So they both go in here also, you know that way if you lose one one breaks, whatever I have a small thing of paracord and some zip ties this I just had lying around from somewhere I don't know where this came from and zip ties and this is for assembling or tying together sticks like on a jungle antenna You know you build a triangle base if you don't know what I'm talking about Don't worry. We're gonna do a video on a jungle antenna and I might have already posted it by time this comes out but This is just for zip tying the base of sticks together or if for whatever reason that didn't work I have some extra paracord to be able to do that the thing I don't have in here is paracord in order to hoist a Antenna up into a tree because I always carry paracord on me separately just like a hank of 50 feet So that's what that would be used for. I don't need to double up on that in here But bunch of zip ties to put sticks together Some paracord if that doesn't work and it looks like I already lost it But I did have in here a credit card with some tape wrapped around it in case we need to put some tape on it Right, so that's an easy cheap way to keep cheap way to carry tape so that You know we have it in the kit and it fits in there and like I said already lost that it looks like so I'm gonna have to replace that This is the wire that's used to build the antenna. This is just cheap aluminum wire. It's bare It's not coated so you know anything it touches will contact And I just chose this because it's the most affordable option and it's disposable And I don't really care if I never see it again. So For insulators, you know, you got to insulate the ends of your antenna This is just a plastic bag that came in some shipping thing So it's just a piece of plastic bag inside a plastic bag So that I will just use that for my insulator, right? Just a bunch of plastic that will act as that you don't need to buy insulators You could but I just again just use a plastic bag that I carry with me and Realistically, you could probably find some kind of field expedient insulator So you don't necessarily need to carry some I just do because I thought it weighs nothing and it's easy Tape measure this is just a fold-over like cloth tape measure and I just put a Ranger band on it to hold it all together But this of course to measure out the length of my antenna now this goes to like 10 feet I don't think I'll need that but You know, I don't want to I could just trim this to like, you know 36 inches or something like that if I really wanted to really be minute about weight But I didn't I just went with this so that's what I got and then lastly. Lastly, this is a Coax cable with a BNC connector so that I can plug one end into my antenna And then I can plug another end into my cobra head and then this attaches to the wire and then we're set to go So all in pretty simple. Oh lastly calculator because you need to calculate You know your formulas to cut the wire to the correct length, right to cut the wire We're just gonna use our multi-tool because you carry that anyway So this is just the extra pieces that are needed in order to build that field expedient antenna If your team uses radios or plans to use radios to communicate with other groups or are trying to reach across greater distances Then I think it's probably a good idea that one guy in your crew Has an antenna kit and then we know how to use it Which like I said, we'll cover in a different video And I know I said this before but I will have an affiliate link down below into Amazon to get some of these Items to put into your kit if this is something you so desired to desire to build Hope that's helpful. Hope that gives you some thoughts do brave deeds and endure