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.

T2FD antenna - A T2FD antenna for 10-15-20 meters band

T2FD, The Forgotten Antenna - The terminated. tilted, folded dipole T2FD is a little known antenna that performs excellently. Compact in size compared to a half­-wave dipole the T2FD provides signal gain, wide frequency coverage, and exceptionally low noise characteristics.

The Broomstick Special - A compact, easy-to-build shortwave antenna

The dipole antenna - One of the easiest and cheapest yet still effective antennas to build for shortwave listening

The Folding Loop - The folding loop antenna for VLF

The Four Foot Loop Antenna - AM Four Foot Loop Antenna for VLF

The Ribbon Cable Loop - The portable 3 foot ribbon cable loop

The Small Loop Project - AM loop antenna for 75/80 meters band

The two foot loop Antenna - two foot AM loop antenna

The Ultimate AM Antenna - How to improve your radio receiver reception on shortwave radio bands

Transmitting Antennas For HF Broadcasting - This paper discusses a number of common used HF transmitting antenna systems and corresponding reference antenna codes. The latter was developed in close consultation with regional coordination groups ABU-HFC, HFCC-ABSU.

Umbrella Loop Antenna - Contruction notes of an Umbrella Loop antenna for AM shortwave listenings

Understanding Shortwave Antennas - Basic of shortwave antennas

Wire receiving loop antenna - A quick and easy to build loop antenna for shortwave listeining can tune from 5 to 18 Mhz