Shortwave

Longwire Antenna Instructions - Instructions for Putting up a Long-Wire Antenna

AM Antennas - The ultimate AM loop antenna article. It is the only article that includes the calculations and detailed plans

Longwire antenna basics - basic notes on building longwire antennas for medium waves

Grounding is key to good reception - Guidelines to groundings.

Magnetic Loop antenna - Why is an Magnetic Loop antenna so special, this antenna is picking only the magnetic part of the elektro magnetic radio wave. The big advantage of this antenna is that the electric interference from the big city have no influence on the received signal

A Small Wire Loop Antennas for 160 meters - Low noise, receive only coax loop antennas for 160 - 10 meters HF bands

Roofspace Antennas - How to build a roofspace antennas and get them to work. Explains how to build an effective antenna in your roof. Very interesting if you don't have possibilities to setup an antenna in your roof.

SWL home made antennas - Short guide to home made antennas for shortwave reception, in pdf format

Balun for HF wire antennas - Schema of a self made balun used to match randmon wire antennas, mainly for shortwave listening pourposes, in italian

Choosing wire for an antenna - One of the most asked questions when it comes to antennas is what kind of wire should I use

Inverted L antenna - The ever-popular inverted L antnna, a fast to implement and setup shortwave antenna project by Arnie Coro C02KK

The Carpet loop indoor antenna - High performance indoor shortwave antenna, the Carpet Loop II is an ideal step upward for the listener who wants something better than a random wire but doesn't want the expensive dice roll of an active antenna.

A Magnetic Loop Antenna for Shortwave Listening (SWL) by KR1ST  ^pop - A well documented plan to build a magnetic loop antenna for Shortwave Listening, includes photos and diagrams.

A Small Wire Loop Antennas for 160 meters  ^pop - Low noise, receive only coax loop antennas for 160 - 10 meters HF bands

AM Antennas  ^pop - The ultimate AM loop antenna article. It is the only article that includes the calculations and detailed plans

Balun for HF wire antennas  ^pop - Schema of a self made balun used to match randmon wire antennas, mainly for shortwave listening pourposes, in italian

Beverage Antenna Information  ^pop - The Beverage antenna was invented in the early 1920s by Dr. Harold H. Beverage

Choosing wire for an antenna  ^pop - One of the most asked questions when it comes to antennas is what kind of wire should I use

Grounding is key to good reception  ^pop - Guidelines to groundings.

How to build a tuned loop antenna  ^pop - How can you vastly improve your Medium Wave reception? its quite simple really, all you need is 120 foot of wire, a few lengths of timber and an old tuning capacitor with which you can build the answer to every DX'ers prayers, a tuned loop antenna.

Inverted L antenna  ^pop - The ever-popular inverted L antnna, a fast to implement and setup shortwave antenna project by Arnie Coro C02KK

Longwire antenna basics  ^pop - basic notes on building longwire antennas for medium waves

Longwire Antenna Instructions  ^pop - Instructions for Putting up a Long-Wire Antenna

Magnetic Loop antenna  ^pop - Why is an Magnetic Loop antenna so special, this antenna is picking only the magnetic part of the elektro magnetic radio wave. The big advantage of this antenna is that the electric interference from the big city have no influence on the received signal

Receiving antenna for low bands  ^pop - K9AY loop antenna installed at PA6Z Contest group. This is a receiving antennas for the low bands (160m, 80m and 40m). Include schematics and info on a building the control box, preamplifier and low-pass filter

Roofspace Antennas  ^pop - How to build a roofspace antennas and get them to work. Explains how to build an effective antenna in your roof. Very interesting if you don't have possibilities to setup an antenna in your roof.

SWL home made antennas  ^pop - Short guide to home made antennas for shortwave reception, in pdf format

The Carpet loop indoor antenna  ^pop - High performance indoor shortwave antenna, the Carpet Loop II is an ideal step upward for the listener who wants something better than a random wire but doesn't want the expensive dice roll of an active antenna.

80/160m Small Receiving Loop - N3OX 80m/160m rx loop

A great shortwave loop antenna - Apartment dwellers and antenna experimenters might like to try this simple loop antenna by OH2FFY

AMANDX Dipole - The longwire antenna is a very effective antenna for the listener who wants to cover all of the shortwave bands from 530 KHZ to 30 MHZ.a

An easy loop for VLF - An easy VLF loop, 200Hz-20kHz reception without transformers by Renato Romero and Marco Bruno

Attic T2FD SWL antenna - Using the T2FD antenna for shortwave listening by AB1KW

Attic T2FD SWL antenna - An indoor tilted terminated folded dipole (T2FD) for shortwave listeners

Broadband receiving antenna matching - This article addresses the subject of obtaining the best signal transfer from an antenna to the typical 50-ohm receiver input over a wide frequency range, with emphasis on medium-wave (500 – 2000 kHz), encompassing the standard AM broadcast band and the 160-m amateur band.

Build your first dipole - The dipole antenna is an easily designed and made antenna usually used on HF, although can be (and sometimes is) made for VHF and UHF antennas, and in varying forms is also used as part of different designs of antennas – i.e. as the driven element for directional antennas.

Compact receiving loop antenna - A receiving loop antenna project suitable for 150-430 KHz reception by Gregg van der Sluys

Dave's Loop Antennas - N2DS home made loop page

Echelon-Log Beverages - About beverage antennas, Enhanced F/B Beverages, Bandwidth of Directivity, arrays

Ferrite antenna for LF - A ferrite antenna for Low Freqencies

Ferrite Rod Antenna - Ferrite rod antenna or aerial, a form of RF antenna that is widely used in RFID and transistor radio applications.

Harmonically Related Antenna - The HarRe antenna series, multi element quarter wave resonant broadcaters band receiving antenna

HB9MTN Loop for BCL - Magnetic Loop antenna for broadcasts band reception

Hula Loop Antenna - A Mediwum Wave DX Antenna made with two hula hoops by G4UCJ

Long Loopstick Antenna - Wound on a 3 foot length of PVC pipe, the long loopstick antenna was an experiment to try to improve AM radio reception without using a long wire or ground.

Low Noise Antenna Connection - Reducing noise to your antenna can gain your aerial performance, learn how.

Magnetic Loop Antenna by ON2BBP - A magnetic loop antenna for indoor (apartment) usage.

Random wire antenna for shortwave listening - VA3STL experience on reorganizing his shack and setting up a new random lenght wire antenna for his Yaesu FRG-7 receiver

Receiving Antenna Design - Learn basic theory on antennas, and notes on homebrewing efficient shortwave antennas

Receiving loop aerial for 1.8 MHz - Bulding notes of a receiving loop antenna for 160 meters band

Receiving loop for long waves - Cancelling out unwanted noise sources by DL3FP

Receiving Loops antennas for 1.8 Mhz - An article on how to build an efficient receive only loop antenna for 160 meters by Lloyd Butler VK5BR

Remotely-tuned loop antenna for LW and MW - This article describes how to build a loop antenna for low frequency (LF) and medium wave (MW) reception with remote-controlled tuning. The antenna is extremely sensitive and can be built mostly from parts from old radios and tape recorders. Like all loop antennas, it is highly directional, which allows you to null out unwanted noise sources.

Rhombic Antenna for Shortwave Radio Broadcasting - Rhombic antenna for shortwave radio broadcasting, general description and radiation patterns

Shielded-Loop Receiving Antenna - Schematics, mechanical drawings and picture of a Receiving loop antenna by N5ESE - N5FC

Slinky and loaded beverages - How slinky loaded beverage antennas works, includes eznec models

Slinky antennas - Slinky Antenna Basics, clandestine dipole

Small magnetic receiving loops - Article about magnetic loops, construction notes and diagrams

Small styrofoam loop - Contructing a loop using a styrofoam block

Small Tuned Loop AM Broadcast Antenna - Alan yates vk2zay's ham radio website, homebrew construction, general electronics, high voltage experiments, amateur rocketry, and general geek stuff

SWL Antenna Distribution System - a methodology for connecting multiple LF/MF/HF receivers to a single antenna via readily available and inexpensive 75-ohm TV cable.

SWL Receiving Antenna Ideas - Shortwave radio receiving antenna experiments, on 30 and 40 meters band with pictures, schematics and descriptions.