Building Your Antenna

• 1). Cut 20 feet off of your ohm twin-lead wire and place the extra wire aside. You'll need the extra wire later.
  
  
• 2). Strip both ends of your 20-foot wire with your wire stripper so 1/2 to 1 inch of bare wire is exposed per end. The exposed wire acts a conduit to receive the radio station's air waves and transmit them to your radio.
  
  
• 3). Twist the two exposed wires on each end together tightly. Use your soldering iron to solder each end of your exposed wires.
  
  
• 4). Strip both ends of the remaining 10-foot length of ohm twin-lead wire with your wire strippers in the same manner as the other wire. You'll be connecting the two of them in a moment.
  
  
• 5). Strip away a 2-inch, very thin section out of the middle of the 20-foot ohm twin-lead wire. You want to be sure you only expose one wire in the middle, and not both of them.
  
  
• 6). Twist together one end of the exposed wire on the 10-foot wire and the exposed wire in the middle of the 20-foot wire. Solder the wires together, and bind that section with electrical tape.
  
  
• 7). Connect the antenna to your radio with the ends of the exposed wire on the 10-foot ohm wire. Make sure that end was not twisted together or soldered. Now tack up your wire as high as possible, even going outside a window to climb up the side of the house for best reception.