{"id":1348,"date":"2020-12-19T15:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/12\/19\/a-very-clever-way-to-build-a-moxon-for-17-and-20-meters\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:17:56","slug":"a-very-clever-way-to-build-a-moxon-for-17-and-20-meters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/12\/19\/a-very-clever-way-to-build-a-moxon-for-17-and-20-meters\/","title":{"rendered":"A Very Clever Way to Build a Moxon for 17 and 20 meters"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/N3OXMoxon2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"781\" data-original-width=\"542\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/N3OXMoxon2.jpg\" width=\"278\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><b>Jim AB9CN sent us Dan Zimmerman N3OX&#8217;s page in response to my plea for help in SolderSmoke #227. I think this is a very clever and attractive way to cover both bands with a single Moxon. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.n3ox.net\/projects\/2017moxon\/\"><b>http:\/\/www.n3ox.net\/projects\/2017moxon\/<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Of course there are other ways to do this &#8212; other listeners wrote in with confirmation that it is indeed possible to nest a 17 meter element inside a 20 meter Moxon (as is done routinely with Hex beams), but this requires a lot of cut-and-try tuning of both antennas. More in this in future posts. Thanks Jim, and thanks to all who wrote in. <\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>I kind of like the N3OX approach. I think his design makes it more of a workbench electronic project, as opposed to a mere wire and coax antenna project. But hey, that&#8217;s just me. <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim AB9CN sent us Dan Zimmerman N3OX&#8217;s page in response to my plea for help in SolderSmoke #227. I think this is a very clever and attractive way to cover both bands with a single Moxon. http:\/\/www.n3ox.net\/projects\/2017moxon\/ Of course there are other ways to do this &#8212; other listeners wrote in with confirmation that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/12\/19\/a-very-clever-way-to-build-a-moxon-for-17-and-20-meters\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Very Clever Way to Build a Moxon for 17 and 20 meters&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,69,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-17-meters","category-antennas","category-moxon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1350,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}