Hello Arv thanks for the reply. I will certainly try to first procure the caps and build aswell once the setup is done with formally mfg caps.

There is this group on FaceBook called as Minimalist QRP? and a poster named Billy Cheung has done phenomenal work by 3d Printing Capacitors.

It's very inspirational too.

Thanks for the links.

In the meanwhile, What are you guys suggesting when it comes to inverted V Antenna. There is a mango tree right in front of my house. I can surely do something with it.
Any leads with plans w.r.t inverted V would be of great help!

Thanks
Rgds
Simran
P.S My call sign is yet to be assigned to me... things are going at a snails pace with the government department. :(

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On Jun 3, 2021, at 21:33, Curt via groups.io <wb8yyy@...> wrote:

?Simran

For receive try stretching out 8m or more of wire. The ubitx was optimized? for full sized antennas, but 8m or more should bring some signals.?

Patiently learn about ham radio antennas. To get RF across coax with minimum loss, the antenna needs to be nearly matched. The EFHW was mentioned, it uses a special network to feed it at one end. Read resources on the web and watch video on basic antenna theory.?

Maybe your nation is very much still in pandemic, use the time to learn. Meanwhile use whatever wire you have to hopefully grab some signals.? Use headphones then the signals should be louder.?

Glad to have you joining global ham radio.?

Curt wb8yyy

I’m actually amazed that you are doing as well as you are. ? There is a concept called “aperture”that relates to the volume of space from which a given antenna extracts signal

If you have more aperture, you have more signal captured. A 1 m loop I think will have a very small aperture

Luckily at home frequencies, we work with signals that are not at the very bottom of the capabilities of most receivers. That’s because the background noise just from the galaxies lightning storms etc., is considerable.

However you face the additional hindrance that you have buildings around you and those absorb power from incoming signals that have to pass through them based on their geometry. ?If the only clear sky you can see is directly above you, then only signals that come in from that angle will be unhindered

Wise person has said that the best antenna is to get “as much wire as you can, as high as you can, and then match to whatever its impedance is.”

I thought that was worth remembering!

It might give you further ideas.

Gordon Kx4z?

On Jun 3, 2021, at 21:33, Curt via groups.io <wb8yyy@...> wrote:

?Simran

For receive try stretching out 8m or more of wire. The ubitx was optimized? for full sized antennas, but 8m or more should bring some signals.?

Patiently learn about ham radio antennas. To get RF across coax with minimum loss, the antenna needs to be nearly matched. The EFHW was mentioned, it uses a special network to feed it at one end. Read resources on the web and watch video on basic antenna theory.?

Maybe your nation is very much still in pandemic, use the time to learn. Meanwhile use whatever wire you have to hopefully grab some signals.? Use headphones then the signals should be louder.?

Glad to have you joining global ham radio.?

Curt wb8yyy

Wire, yes, and don't be picky about it.? Old CRT TVs or monitors have deflection coils with lots of thin wire that is free and nearly invisible.? Push it through the screen in your window and far out into the world.? Then scrape the end of it (it's covered in enamel) and hook it up to one terminal of your antenna connector.? Hook up the other terminal to a ground, or just more wire, going somewhere else.? Try different stuff.? Did this as a kid, still doing now, and even transmitting on it using a cheap antenna tuner.