 Hey everyone Dylan Schumacher Citadel Defense and today we're going to talk about building a jungle antenna So a jungle antenna comes from just before just after World War two When US troops were training in like the Philippines area and they figured out how to rig up an antenna So that they could transmit further right using their radios so I actually looked around online to try to find other YouTube videos about how to build this so I could go and build one and I did not see a lot of good content out there So a jungle antenna is actually stupid simple Even a neanderthal like me can figure out how to build one So surely you can figure out how to do it yourself as well Basically what we're gonna do is we're gonna build a triangle of three lengths of wire and then one on top And then we're gonna hoist it up into a tree and connect our radio to it. That's essentially what we're doing It's really really easy. You'll need a few tools to do it So let's talk about how to build a jungle antenna So the first thing you need to know is this formula up here. So the formula is 936 That is the constant number But 936 Divided by your frequency equals your length and feet now I don't understand all the science behind this part someone probably else someone else probably does to be honest I don't really care. I just want what works with the jungle antenna You need to go in a quarter wave frequencies. So you only need a quarter length of that 936 So 936 divided by 4 is 234 Again, don't know the science behind it Don't really care if you do go ahead and leave an intelligent comment below and the rest of us can be informed but 234 divided by the frequency gives me my length in feet of each one of those triangle pieces, right? So we have three lengths on the bottom to build a triangle right like a pyramid and then one length coming out the top Okay, so each one of these lengths needs to be 234 divided by my frequency equals my length. So once I get that number I multiply it by 12 That's how many inches I'm going to cut each length to okay Keep in mind when you do your frequency like if your frequency is 151 dot, you know, 008 You're going to take 234 divided by 151 dot You know 008. It's not 151 008, right? That'll screw up your calculations So just remember your frequency is point whatever it is, okay? 434 46 point 018 or whatever. Okay, that's your formula Once you do that again pretty simple from there you cut four lengths of wire eat all to the same length Okay You're going to make a pyramid shape bottom here and one coming up the top I'm sure there's other ways to do it, but I just use a cobra head Which is has two places to connect wires to on the top in the bottom here red goes up. Remember heat rises That's how I remember that okay, so my three lengths for the bottom three lengths Which form my ground plane are going to come to the bottom my one length going up the top is going to connect to the Red one, okay from there this has a BNC adapter and that's what I'm going to connect my coaxial cable to Okay, so we have our our cobra head here That's what we'll connect our coax to that'll go over to our little radio. That's my radio I hope you think it looks nice. So once we've assembled this antenna We are going to cut a triangle for forming the base of that pyramid to so we have our pyramid of wire Right coming down in three strands and then we're going to cut a triangle to just connect each one of those ends to to kind of hold It's shape okay the triangle super simple whatever you cut these lengths of wire to you find three sticks You cut them to the same length and then you attach you build a base triangle You can use some zip ties and tapes and paracord whatever doesn't really matter Just make yourself a base and then you're going to attach your bottom of lengths of wire to that triangle When you do that, you just need to insulate between that base and your wire Okay, I typically use some plastic bag Just like a piece of plastic bag. I just rip it off and that's my insulator Okay, same thing you need to insulate it on the top so all ends of the wire You're going to insulate with a plastic bag or a glass piece of glass of work or a marina marine spoon Spoon from an MRE work whatever just something so that doesn't transmit electricity Paracord actually does I guess when wet it's a it's a conductive so don't use that but you get the idea some kind of Insulator on the ends on the top wire. You're going to attach your paracord there that will go over a tree This is my tree Okay, some branch in a tree and you're going to hoist up your piece You're now newly made antenna up into the tree Okay, make sure you connect your coax cable before you hoist that thing up into the tree That'll make your life easier your coax cable in general. I guess you don't want to go longer than 18 feet Okay, but after you get that sucker hoisted up into the tree You can plug it to your radio and that's when you're ready to party I tested this out with some guys and with a handheld radio that had about 10 watts of power in We were reaching out to about eight miles To someone who is in a truck Driving and they had a 50 watt radio in their truck and they were drove about eight miles away Now, you know, maybe there was some play there with their radio between if that we would have been able to reach a handheld or whatever Right, so again lots of science there. My point is it's significantly Increases your range To be able to throw one of these up and they're super light super simple They stay hidden the only downside here is that a jungle antenna transmits in all directions So that means anybody within that circumference is going to be able to pick you up, right? Anybody in that eight miles now that could be a good thing if that's what you're trying to accomplish But if that's not what you want to accomplish Then you'll have to build a different antenna like a directional antenna and we'll maybe get to that at some point in This channel, but just know that a jungle antenna is incredibly easy to build They are incredibly effective and you should absolutely get out there and try to build a jungle antenna And have one of your buddies again get in a car and start driving and make contacts with them along the way Until you can't anymore because you are going to get a lot of juice out of this for very little work High high work high low work high reward However, you want to say that but definitely a skill set you should have in your toolbox So that if you ever need to punch out there with radio comes You can do it. Hope that's helpful. Try it. Let me know how it works do brave deeds and endure