Making a Cheap Flexible J-Pole

Here's a roll-up J-Pole antenna which is very popular in amateur radio.

The photos are shown from my Flickr set called "Amateur Radio Small Twinlead J-Pole Antenna".

This is the final product. It has a low SWR for my intended VHF frequency, and it works great.

Many, many thanks to the people who's material I have read and references on my Delicious links for this subject.

Here are the set of detailed construction pictures.