Longmont Amateur Radio Club-LARC

Serving the Longmont Colorado Community!

“The mission of the Longmont Amateur Radio Club is to promote, support, and lead amateur radio activities in a manner that honors and exemplifies the radio amateur’s code, builds camaraderie within our membership, and serves our community’s needs.”

Chuck Poch

SpiderBeam Antenna

There are several attachments to this page:

1. Construction Guide.
2. Specifications
3. Bad SWR diagnostic page.
4. SWR Chart (for recording SWR for diagnostic purposes)
5. Tuning the Spiderbeam

LARC Spiderbeam assembly instructions.

Before you start, remember this: This beam has been assembled before which means if something does not fit, you do NOT have it in the correct place or position. The antenna consists of the center post with balun mounted, center post extension, fiberglass spreaders and 4 spools with supports and elements.

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LARC Newsletters 2013

LARC Newsletters 2013

Click on any of the links below to view the newsletter online
or download the pdf file from any of the pages…

LARC Splatter – January

LARC Splatter – December

LARC Splatter – November

LARC Splatter – October

LARC  Splatter – September – No issue this month due to the flooding

LARC Splatter – August

LARC Splatter – July

LARC Splatter – June

LARC Splatter – May 

LARC Splatter – March

LARC Splatter – February 

LARC Splatter – January