Building the Tiger Tail Antenna Paratus Radio

The Tail is a 1/4 wave + 5 percent counterpoise wire hung from the HT antenna connector creating a mock 1/2 wave u0001 dipole. The trick in making an affective Tail is to insure a good tight fit to the HT connector. I duplicated the Tail by using ring terminals but a problem with ring terminals are those darn BNC posts.. Paratus Radio Building the Tiger Tail Antenna "If you can make a dipole antenna, then you can make any antenna." - NC Scout Background Your handheld radio has an antenna that is a quarter-wave "monopole". It's not very efficient, but it's a compromise for better portability and convenience. You can improve this by using a Tiger Tail (also known as a Rat Tail). This is done by.

How to Make a Tiger Tail by NM3S A tiger tail is a 1⁄4 wavelength antenna wire that "completes the dipole" for HTs, giving them a vertical dipole antenna that works much better than the 1⁄4 wavelength vertical "rubber duck" antenna (without a ground plane) that generally comes with HTs.. Make Multi-band tiger tails A simple, inexpensive and effective expedient to improve a "rubber duck" antenna is a counterpoise or "tiger tail". Make this from a piece of stranded wire, crimped and soldered to a battery clip. Your antenna acts like a center-fed dipole instead of an end-fed dummy load and adds up to 3db to your TX/RX signal.