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- Antenna Construction
- Using the proper antenna materials.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- W4RNL Antenna notes
- Antenna modelling techniques and examples by W4RNL
- Gamma match example
- A gamma match example
- This Old Dipole
- An antenna construction workshop conducted at Marshall N1FN's QTH
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- 160-meters antenna problems and solutions
- Bill Orr W6SAI ham radio techniques. Improving ground connection, computer analysis of the antenna, modelling sample antennas
[Hits: 534 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0.00] - 50MHz Power Splitters
updated
- 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: 993 | Votes: 3 | Rating: 10.00] - A stored energy antenna line launcher
- This is a homebrew version of the EZ Hang antenna launcher. By Richard Morrow, K5CNF
[Hits: 273 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 10.00] - 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: 153 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0.00] - Antenna Construction
- Using the proper antenna materials.
[Hits: 9637 | Votes: 5 | Rating: 6.00] - Antenna construction hints
updated
- Hints about Jpole Yagi and Quad antennas
[Hits: 566 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 2.00] - 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: 553 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 7.00] - Antenna Modelling
- Antenna modelling notes, including wich antenna modelling software choose and where to find useful resources for antenna planning and home-brewing.
[Hits: 1057 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 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: 1007 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0.00] - Antennas basics
- An antenna study guide by NZART, cover basic topics like dipoles, wave lenght calculation, baluns, beams, dummy loads, and measurements.
[Hits: 4024 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 10.00] - 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: 412 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0.00] - Build Your Own Coils
- A method of building coils for your home made antennas
[Hits: 310 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0.00] - 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: 1464 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 8.00] - Building Coils
- Building coils for a portable dipole using
a novel method of winding coils with weedeater cord!
By K4MMG
[Hits: 262 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0.00] - Building EH antennas by F5IXU
- Notes on building efficient EH antennas in French
[Hits: 274 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0.00] - Building High Power, High Q, Loading Coils
- This page describes the loading coil (inductor) that W8WWV built for my center-loaded 160 meter (1.83 MHz) vertical antenna.
[Hits: 1261 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 1.00] - 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: 558 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 9.00] - Conductors for HF antennas : Foil
- About foil conductors
[Hits: 251 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 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: 866 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 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: 3784 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 10.00] - Gamma match example
- A gamma match example
[Hits: 2225 | Votes: 12 | Rating: 4.59] - Home Brew Loading Coil for AD5X Vertical
- How to make a loading coil for the AD5X portable vertical antenna
[Hits: 202 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 8.00] - Homebrew your own inductors
updated
- 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: 4235 | Votes: 4 | Rating: 7.25] - Homebrewing: A Lost Art
- A Packeteers guide to homebrewing
[Hits: 181 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 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: 861 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 10.00] - 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
[Hits: 5312 | Votes: 6 | Rating: 7.50] - Installing dipole insulators
- Installing your dipole end insulators
[Hits: 1439 | Votes: 3 | Rating: 6.67] - K-FACTOR Table & Chart
- Determine the K-Factor used as a multiplier when constructing half-wave antennas.
[Hits: 876 | Votes: 7 | Rating: 3.29] - Loading Coil for 136 kHz
- Pictures of loading coils according to OK1FIG
[Hits: 81 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 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: 862 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 3.50] - Omega and Gama Matching
- Article about omega and gamma matching, related to bandwidth, loss and component failures, heating and power ratings
[Hits: 712 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0.00] - 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: 637 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0.00] - Simple VHF Gamma Match
- Plan of a simple VHF & UHF Gamma match contrstruction
[Hits: 776 | Votes: 5 | Rating: 4.60] - 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: 1141 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0.00] - This Old Dipole
- An antenna construction workshop conducted at Marshall N1FN's QTH
[Hits: 1756 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 6.00] - To Trap or Not to Trap
- An interesting article on traps, pros and cons of trapping by W4RNL
[Hits: 611 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 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: 675 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0.00] - Using Delta Matching on HF Beams
- Using delta match with HF antennas design
[Hits: 1280 | Votes: 1 | Rating: 1.00] - W4RNL Antenna notes
- Antenna modelling techniques and examples by W4RNL
[Hits: 3563 | Votes: 54 | Rating: 8.45] - 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
[Hits: 1257 | Votes: 0 | Rating: 0.00]
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