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- Antenna Construction
- Using the proper antenna materials.
Antenna construction tips By Bob Hejl - W2IK
- Homebrew your own inductors
- Can’t find the inductors you need for an antenna, a tuner or amplifier? Build your own—it’s
easy! By Robert H. Johns, W3JIP
- Antennas basics
- An antenna study guide by NZART, cover basic topics like dipoles, wave lenght calculation, baluns, beams, dummy loads, and measurements.
- Install a PL-259 on an RG-8X
- A better way to install PL-259 connectors on RG-8X type coax by Dan Richardson, K6MHE
- Ferrite information
- Ferrite Toroidal Cores, Magnetic Properties of Ferrite Materials, EMI - RFI Suppression
Design Considerations, Ferrite Beads, Ferrites for RFI Ferrite Cores for RFI Suppression
by CWS ByteMark
- This Old Dipole
- An antenna construction workshop conducted at Marshall N1FN's QTH
- Building Coaxial Traps
- This page describes the design and construction materials W8WWV used to build a coaxial cable trap. A coaxial cable trap is a parallel resonant circuit that is usually inserted in an antenna element to enable multiband operation.
- W4RNL Antenna notes
- Antenna modelling techniques and examples by W4RNL
- Using Delta Matching on HF Beams
- Using delta match with HF antennas design
- Easy tuning an building of traps
- A new and simple method for tuning traps. You need 2-3Watt of your TRX and two homemade coupling coils by DK7ZB
- Optimizing half-wave sloper arrays for 160 meters
- This article presents a 160-meter variation of this family of antennas and, more importantly, a discussion of the details of how to get such a beast
working really well.
- Installing dipole insulators
- Installing your dipole end insulators
- Yagi Element Mounting Considerations
- One of the most important considerations when designing and building a Yagi antenna is the method used to attach the elements to a boom. This is true because the boom influences the electrical length of the elements. In this article JH Reisert explain with drawings techniques on mounting yagi antenna elements to a boom
- To Trap or Not to Trap
- An interesting article on traps, pros and cons of trapping by W4RNL
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- Build Yagi antennas that works
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- Excellent article on How to Build A Yagi Antenna That Works by Paul NO8D DX Engineering
[Hits: 92 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Antenna Construction
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- Using the proper antenna materials.
Antenna construction tips By Bob Hejl - W2IK
[Hits: 22866 | Votes: 12 | Rate: 5.58] - Antennas basics
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- An antenna study guide by NZART, cover basic topics like dipoles, wave lenght calculation, baluns, beams, dummy loads, and measurements.
[Hits: 20306 | Votes: 10 | Rate: 8.90] - Homebrew your own inductors
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- Can’t find the inductors you need for an antenna, a tuner or amplifier? Build your own—it’s
easy! By Robert H. Johns, W3JIP
[Hits: 20537 | Votes: 13 | Rate: 7.46] - Install a PL-259 on an RG-8X
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- A better way to install PL-259 connectors on RG-8X type coax by Dan Richardson, K6MHE
[Hits: 19265 | Votes: 32 | Rate: 8.12] - 160-meters antenna problems and solutions
- Bill Orr W6SAI ham radio techniques. Improving ground connection, computer analysis of the antenna, modelling sample antennas pdf file
[Hits: 2487 | Votes: 6 | Rate: 9.30] - 50MHz Power Splitters
- Splitting an antenna between two receivers or
in use as the phasing harness in stacked antennas where there is a need to equally split the power from the transmitter between two antennas
[Hits: 2471 | Votes: 5 | Rate: 9.20] - A stored energy antenna line launcher
- This is a homebrew version of the EZ Hang antenna launcher. By Richard Morrow, K5CNF
[Hits: 2047 | Votes: 3 | Rate: 9.00] - AA5AU PVRC Antenna Mount Page
- The PVRC Mount is a tilt-head type antenna mount that allows large HF Yagi antennas to be easily installed on towers.
[Hits: 1261 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Adjusting HF Antenna Lengths
- Find out how much to adjust the length of a quarter wave whip or a half wave dipole rather than the outright cut-and-try method.
[Hits: 125 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - An intro to OWA Quad's
Priority listing
- An introduction to OWA (Optimised wideband array) 50Ohm direct feed Quad beam antennas
[Hits: 290 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 10.00] - Analysis Of Antenna Mast Strength and Bending Stress
- Calculations for determining the wind loading stress on an antenna mast. Link to a spreadsheet for calculating the mast bending stress based on wind speed and antenna cross sectional area.
[Hits: 2888 | Votes: 9 | Rate: 8.11] - Analyzing Three Antenna Analyzers
- On this page W8WWV present some measurements he made with three of the popular antenna analyzers.
MFJ MFJ-269, AEA CIA-HF, Autek RF-1
[Hits: 1788 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Antenna construction hints
- Hints about Jpole Yagi and Quad antennas
[Hits: 2083 | Votes: 4 | Rate: 4.00] - Antenna DIY Videos
- DIY antennas videos chosen for content and quality.
[Hits: 240 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Antenna Gain Comparison System
- This device goal is to optimize homebrew antenna for the V/UHF band. This tool, is based itself on the simultaneously comparison between two antenna, directly in dB. by IK0BDO
[Hits: 1739 | Votes: 8 | Rate: 5.75] - Antenna Impedance measurement
- When experimenting on an antenna it's often important to determine its feedpoint impedance at various frequencies across the operating band. It's easy enough to measure SWR, but sometimes we need to know more detail than this
[Hits: 744 | Votes: 5 | Rate: 2.60] - Antenna Modelling
- Antenna modelling notes, including wich antenna modelling software choose and where to find useful resources for antenna planning and home-brewing.
[Hits: 1958 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Antenna Trimming Chart
- Use this chart as an aid in trimming the length of your antenna. It gives you an idea of the change in wire length needed to move antenna resonance a specific number of KHz.
[Hits: 2346 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 10.00] - Assembling a Spider Beam
- Spider Beam antenna pictures in a youtube video
[Hits: 212 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Better Feedline Loss Measurements with Antenna Analyzers
- Various publications through the years have shown how the SWR measured on a shorted (or open) feed line can be used to calculate feed line attenuation
[Hits: 1141 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 10.00] - Building Coaxial Traps
- This page describes the design and construction materials W8WWV used to build a coaxial cable trap. A coaxial cable trap is a parallel resonant circuit that is usually inserted in an antenna element to enable multiband operation.
[Hits: 7453 | Votes: 5 | Rate: 8.20] - Building EH antennas by F5IXU
- Notes on building efficient EH antennas in French
[Hits: 1870 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 5.00] - Building tips
- Homebrewing antennas with parts which you can buy from local shops and stores.
[Hits: 507 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Building UHF Antennas
- This method of construction can be used on most UHF through \"low\" microwave Yagis, and is especially useful for the 33, 23 and 13 cm bands
[Hits: 91 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Cebik.org - W4RNL historic web site
- A free historic mirror site of L. B. Cebik's W4RNL web legacy.
[Hits: 915 | Votes: 3 | Rate: 9.33] - Center feed insulator
- A center antenna insulator with feedline strain relief
[Hits: 783 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Coaxial antennas
- G3TXQ study on coaxial cable demonstrate that it can reduce an element's length by something approaching the Velocity Factor of the cable
[Hits: 830 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 10.00] - Conductors for HF Antennas
- Putting up an antenna for the low bands? What kind of wire will you use? This analysis may change your plans.
[Hits: 1683 | Votes: 4 | Rate: 9.25] - Conductors for HF antennas : Foil
- About foil conductors
[Hits: 814 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Constructing simple wire antennas
- Simple wire antennas like dipoles and verticals are dead easy to make: here’s how
[Hits: 1589 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Construction Practices
- The construction of light weight structures that support wire antennas requires some definite insight into the behavior of the materials
[Hits: 1573 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Designing Driven Elements in Yagi antennas
- The design and feeding of driven elements for VHF/UHF Yagi antennas , modeling, observations and some case studies by Graham Daubney F/G8MBI
[Hits: 600 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Distributing Receive antennas
- Designing low-band receiving antennas By Eric L. Scace K3NA and George Cutsgeorge W2VJN
[Hits: 237 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Easy tuning an building of traps
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- A new and simple method for tuning traps. You need 2-3Watt of your TRX and two homemade coupling coils by DK7ZB
[Hits: 4249 | Votes: 45 | Rate: 8.06] - Exploring the secrets of the Smith chart
- If you're a Radio Engineer wannabee, you need to understand transmission lines. It's impossible to really understand transmitters and antennas without understanding lines. Using the Smith chart is far easier than really understanding the math by Chris Scott and associates
[Hits: 719 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Ferrite information
- Ferrite Toroidal Cores, Magnetic Properties of Ferrite Materials, EMI - RFI Suppression
Design Considerations, Ferrite Beads, Ferrites for RFI Ferrite Cores for RFI Suppression
by CWS ByteMark
[Hits: 10223 | Votes: 3 | Rate: 6.33] - From Transmitter to Antenna
- A collection of articles on the subject of impedance, impedance matching and high-frequency power transmission by G3YNH
[Hits: 812 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Ham Radio Hints and Kinks
- Tips on tapping Aluminum ,Holding a hex nut in a tight place,Placing washer or nut in a tight place,Fastening nut to chassis, Testing bipolar transistor with ohmmeter by K3MT
[Hits: 642 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 1.00] - Home-brew Antennas
- Notes on homebrewing antennas by Chris G4CYA, from gamma matching, to phasing antennas, splitters and combiners, baluns and measuring techniques.
[Hits: 2085 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 10.00] - Homebrew traps
- Traps can be one way round multiband coverage without the need of an atu. Learn how to homebrew your own traps
[Hits: 2012 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Homebrewing: A Lost Art
- A Packeteers guide to homebrewing
[Hits: 1030 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - How To Build A Stacking Harness
- How to build a home brew coax harness for co-phasing
and/or stacking 2 50 Ohm antennas, includes a table with velocity factor of common coaxial cables
[Hits: 1964 | Votes: 5 | Rate: 5.40] - Installing dipole insulators
- Installing your dipole end insulators
[Hits: 3421 | Votes: 4 | Rate: 7.50] - K-FACTOR Table & Chart
- Determine the K-Factor used as a multiplier when constructing half-wave antennas.
[Hits: 2210 | Votes: 30 | Rate: 3.83] - Metal Fatigue and Antenna Elements
- by Technical Topics
[Hits: 246 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - MMana-GAL Getting started
- Getting started with MMANA-GAL antenna analysis software
[Hits: 66 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Mounting elements to a boom
- Here is an easy method to mount elements to a boom, this can be realized at home, without the need of special tools
[Hits: 1808 | Votes: 3 | Rate: 5.67] - Omega and Gama Matching
- Article about omega and gamma matching, related to bandwidth, loss and component failures, heating and power ratings
[Hits: 2233 | Votes: 2 | Rate: 10.00] - Optimizing half-wave sloper arrays for 160 meters
- This article presents a 160-meter variation of this family of antennas and, more importantly, a discussion of the details of how to get such a beast
working really well.
[Hits: 3542 | Votes: 2 | Rate: 7.00] - Painting Antennas
- Painting an antenna protects the plastic parts from ultraviolet light and pollution and also tends to glue the hardware together.
[Hits: 401 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Phasing Harness for Stacking Antennas
- How to build a phasing harness for stacking antennas
[Hits: 524 | Votes: 30 | Rate: 7.88] - Protection for Yagi elements
- The following discussion about the Aluminum oxidization & protection of Yagi elements took place in the Moon-Net reflector.
[Hits: 222 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - PVC Yagi antennas - techniques
- Collection of different techniques to homebrew PVC yagi antennas, including elements assembling, baluns and chokes, radiator box tips and tricks by dk7zb
[Hits: 882 | Votes: 2 | Rate: 4.00] - Radial System Design
- Are the lengths of antenna radials related to the height of a vertical? By N6LF
[Hits: 564 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 5.00] - Recycling TV Antennas for 2-Meter Use
- Green that aluminum into something useful right in your own backyard by WB2CQM
[Hits: 508 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 8.00] - Rolling your own balanced feed lines
- An article by VE1VQ that illustrate how to home made a balanced feed line
[Hits: 1275 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 10.00] - Steps to a successful Yagi build first time
Priority listing
- The purpose of this page is to help the professional and amateur builder alike gain some invaluable information to ensure a successful, first time build
[Hits: 403 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - The DK7ZB-Match for Yagis
- Simple, easy to built match developed in 1995 for Yagis with resistitive loads of 12.5, 18 and 28 Ohm.
[Hits: 2969 | Votes: 5 | Rate: 6.00] - The OWA Yagi
Priority listing
- An introduction to the OWA (optimised Wideband Array) Yagi antenna
[Hits: 633 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - This Old Dipole
- An antenna construction workshop conducted at Marshall N1FN's QTH
[Hits: 9733 | Votes: 6 | Rate: 7.17] - To Trap or Not to Trap
- An interesting article on traps, pros and cons of trapping by W4RNL
[Hits: 3032 | Votes: 2 | Rate: 5.50] - Tuning HF antenna Traps
- Tuning HF Coaxial Antenna Traps
[Hits: 95 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Use of tripods to assemble and balance big antennas
- Here is a way to ease assembly and balancing of a large antenna. The elements and boom are assembled separately in most cases. Once they are all together set up 2 tripods in the assembly area and put the boom on them.
[Hits: 1796 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 10.00] - Using Delta Matching on HF Beams
- Using delta match with HF antennas design
[Hits: 4565 | Votes: 4 | Rate: 3.50] - W4RNL Antenna notes
- Antenna modelling techniques and examples by W4RNL
[Hits: 5883 | Votes: 56 | Rate: 8.31] - Weatherproof Vertical Antennas - Slim Jim
- How to make a Weatherproof Vertically Polarised Omnidirectional Aerial, The Slim Jim Antenna
[Hits: 2508 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 10.00] - Winding an Effective 1:1 Coax Balun
- Guidelines to wound a balun by WA2SRQ
[Hits: 1934 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 8.00] - Wire Sizes
- Sizes of wire as compared to their gauge American Wire Gauge by W8HDU
[Hits: 470 | Votes: 1 | Rate: 9.00] - Yagi antenna construction notes
- KA7OEI article on homebrewing Yagi UDA antennas with practical suggestions and designing notes.
[Hits: 454 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Yagi Antenna Elements Boom Correction
- Dragoslav Dobricic, YU1AW antennex article on influence of Boom on frequency performance and how compensate it
[Hits: 348 | Votes: 0 | Rate: 0.00] - Yagi Element Mounting Considerations
- One of the most important considerations when designing and building a Yagi antenna is the method used to attach the elements to a boom. This is true because the boom influences the electrical length of the elements. In this article JH Reisert explain with drawings techniques on mounting yagi antenna elements to a boom
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