Antennas...

Rolling your own...

  • M0WYM - several antenna projects
  • 6 meter antenna projects - Here you will find 2 simple antenna projects for 6 meter fun designed for easy and inexpensive construction.
  • Antenna notes - Antenna notes for a dummy.
  • Antenna Toolkit Book - interesting information on various antennas and related items and the theory behind them. PDF file.
  • Electrically small antennas (ESAs) - Survey of amateur ESA requirements.
  • K7MEM - Javascript Electronic Notebook, Electrically Short Half-Wave Dipole by Martin E. Meserve. Design a shortened dipole and loading coils here.
  • THE N4UJW ANTENNA PROJECTS DESIGN LAB - You can't work them if you can't hear them! Design or build your antenna here!
  • Super loop - G5RV vs Superloop 80
  • Mystery Antenna - A multi-band wire antenna that performs exceptionally well even though it confounds antenna modeling software.
  • Short 40 meter dipole - Linear loaded dipole for 7 MHz. PDF file.
  • 50 MHz Moxon Rectangle - antenna to build for 6 meters.
  • Copper vertical - VHF Low band 1/2 wave vertical to build.
  • Square copper dipole - another 6 meter antenna to build
  • WB5CXC - Building and Exploring EH Antennas. This is where you have instruction on building a 6 foot 80M antenna. We also have data on Moxon Antennas, Satellite Antennas, and other Amateur Radio Activities.
  • WN5DXP - Welcome to Cecil's Amateur Radio Home Page.
  • VHF/UHF dual bander - a j-pole made out of TV twinlead, hang it anywhere. PDF article from QST. I made one of these a few years ago, it worked well!
  • Vertical loop - An Easy to Install Vertical Loop for 80-6 Meters.
  • Loading coils - W8WWV - Building High Power, High Q, Loading Coils.
  • Mobile HF antennas - Effective HF Mobile Antennas.
  • Cobra HF antennas - Frank N4SPP's Ham Radio home-built shorty cobra folded dipole antenna.
  • Multiband mobile HF antenna - build an Outbacker style antenna.
  • Moxon antenna project - the goal of this website is to share the experiences of MOXON antenna builders everywhere.
  • Loop antennas - Full-wave loops are very popular antennas. They are especially useful on 80 and 40 meters where they perform well at modest heights.
  • Short antennas - Shortened Antennas for Portables.
  • The double bazooka - Notes on Assembly of the Double Bazooka.
  • The Hentenna - The Hentenna was developed by Japanese 6 Meter Hams, JE1DEU / JH1FCZ/ JH1YST in the 1970's and can be designed and built for hf thru uhf and possibly beyond!
  • Wire antennas - The terminated, tilted, folded dipole (T2FD) is a little known antenna that performs excellently.
  • Cage dipole - The N3UJJ Multi Band Cage Dipole Antenna Project.
  • Buddipole - Home of the homebrew "Buddipole" - A Portable Dipole Antenna Design.
  • Small dipole antennas - A small loaded dipole fed via balanced open line so that tuning and and matching for frequency change can be controlled from within the radio shack.
  • X3 antenna circut unbalanced - The article describes how the transmitted field strength can be increased two S points by unbalancing the antenna circuit and allowing current to flow in a longitudinal mode.
  • 80 meter - center loaded vertical.
  • 80 meter - shortened dipole project.
  • W3DZZ antenna - multiband trap dipole.
  • 80/40 vertical - +160M at a push..!!
  • Hanging loop antenna - a 10/17 meter hanging loop antenna.
  • Dipoles and inverted vees - Design Your Own Dipoles And Inverted Vees.
  • Magnetic loop antennas - Why is an Magnetic Loop antenna so special.
  • Stake stick vertical - The St. Louis Vertical, widely known as the SLV, is a great all band vertical antenna for portable use. I was interested in something a bit more compact that was optimized for the higher bands.
  • Transmit/Receive L antenna - The KK4TR/KN4LF ALL-BAND TRANSMIT/RECEIVE "L" ANTENNA
  • WN5DXP - Cecil's Amateur Radio Home Page.
  • 20 Meter Mini Yagi - build a 2 element, inexpensive yagi for 20 meters.
  • Long wire antenna random wire - Technically to be a true "longwire" an antenna needs to be at least one wavelength long, but common use of the term by Hams is for any random wire length that is end fed.
  • Building High Power, High Q, Loading Coils -This page describes the loading coil (inductor) that I built for my center-loaded 160 meter (1.83 MHz) vertical antenna.
  • Coaxial Traps - for Multiband Antennas, the True Equivalent Circuit from QST. PDF file
  • Space Efficient Dipole - for 40, 80 & 160 meters from QST, PDF file.
  • Bootstrap coax traps - an analysis of an antenna trap where a coil is formed of a length of coax cable.
  • Flower Pot "Hidden" Antenna - FLOWERPOT ANTENNA for CONDOS

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