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Coaxial-Cable Trap Dipole - An Attic Coaxial-Cable trap dipole for 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, and 80 meters

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

Wire antenna - The $4 Special all band wire antenna

40 thru 10 Meter Zepp Antenna - A modified 20 meter double zepp wire Operating Bands: 40 thru 10 meters (with tuner), basic construction and performance information.

G5RV Antenna - Notes, and considerations about the G5RV antenna

G5RV Antenna - The G5RV antenna, with its special feeder arrangement, is a multiband centre-fed antenna capable of very efficient operation on all hf bands from 3.5 to 28 MHz

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

The FD4 (FD3) Windom Antenna - The 4-band Fritzel model FD4 is a special version of a Windom antenna. It is a half-wave long on the lowest frequency, and is fed from a coax cable through a transformer inserted in the wire at one-third from one end

New Carolina windom antenna - PDF file by QRP Expressions by By N. T. Len Carlson, K4IWL

6-Band Windom antenna - Theory and construction of a novel trapless center-loaded off-center-fed (cl-ocf) dipole or windom antenna for the 80, 40, 30, 20, 15 and 10m hf amateur radio (ham) bands

80 meters wire antenna - A reduced-size 80-meter antenna designed for small lots, portable use, and a fine companion for QRP

Picture of a multiband dipole - Pictures of a multiband dipole, build with simple PVC T and standard electrical wire

Cheap antenna to make from 160m - 6m - The antenna is nothing more than a simple 2.4 metre square loop drawing pinned to the internal brick wall of the spare bedroom. Yep, thats right, the inside wall of the spare bedroom - ideal for flat dwellers, hotel rooms or whinging neighbours, The loop has a simple switched inductance at the top of the square loop and uses a simple coaxial stub to tune the antenna. An additional variable capacitor placed across the feedpoint can be used to fine tune the resonance of the antenna, by Andy G0FTD

Balun Theory - The word balun means balanced-unbalanced: it's used to adapt a balanced device to an unbalanced one

Short Dipoles - Short dipoles and verticals for 160 80 and 40 meters

Rotatable Dipoles - Portable, and shortened with loading coils rotatable dipoles for 6 meters, 20 meters and multibands.

Indoor antenna de F6CYV - Indoor wire antenna project for 7 Mhz band

Double-L For 80/160 - Double-L Antenna For 80/160 by Don Toman, K2KQ

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

Multiband dipole comparison - A comparison of different multi-band dipole techniques

Folded Dipole - All about folded dipoles, a variation of the dipole is an antenna called a folded dipole. It radiates like a dipole but sort of looks like a squashed quad.

DX Dual Dipole - Two dipoles fed from the same coaxial line by n6bz for 20 and 15 meters

Magnetic Longwire Baluns - Do these things do exactly what they say they do, or are they total hogwash? - Patrick lifts the lid on the MLB

Build a Double Bazooka HF antenna - Build a double bazooka coaxial dipole, broad-band dipole antenna

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

40m Short Antenna - GM4JMU shortened dipole for 40 meters band

Multiband wire antennas and ATUs - DC1YB experience on multiband wire antennas. In particular examine FD4 windom and G5RV antenna, considering noise levels and matching aspects. Author reviews also the usage of Automatic antenna tuners in TS-50 TS-480 and GC-3000

A low cost fishing pole vertical antenna - This antenna is based on a 10 Metre long fibreglass fishing pole, by G4AON

160 metre L antenna - by Greg Weinfurtner AEE BSS

Dipole Height - How High should my Dipole be? Dipole Antennas and the effect of height above ground

Homebrew a W3DZZ antenna - Build your own multiband W3DZZ antenna resonating on 80 40 20 15 and 10 meters band

Switchable Antenna 80/160 meters band - A switchable antenna for 80/160 meters by IK1ZOY. A new version of a 1/4L 80 m. dipole modified for use in 160 m. band. using it's own coaxial cable feeder to wrap a coil.

20m QRP Dipole - Instructions to build a portable dipole for 20 meters

20m mini loaded dipole - It is very simple to build and you can tune it in your shack room

All Band Dipole - Antenna suitable for all the HF amateur bands, including the so called WARC bands by vk6ysf

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.

A Longwire Aerial for Six Metres - Build a longwire antenna for 50 Mhz

An effective 3 band Wire DX aerial - A 3 band dipole for 10 15 and 20 meters band by Mel G4WYW

Simple wire antennas that work - Dipole, inverted V, full wave loop and grond plane antenna quick reference plans

Slinky antennas - Slinky Antenna Basics, clandestine dipole

Slinky Antennas - The first recorded use of the slinky as an antenna was by American soldiers during the Vietnam conflict. The slinkies were thrown over trees and used in emergencies when the normal antennas weree out of action

Sloper Antenna Tests - Mark Connelly - WA1ION tests on slooper antennas

Switchable Antenna 80/160 meters band Priority listing - A switchable antenna for 80/160 meters by IK1ZOY. A new version of a 1/4L 80 m. dipole modified for use in 160 m. band. using it's own coaxial cable feeder to wrap a coil.

The 20-17-15 meter fan-dipole project - A parallel multiband wire dipole project by VE2XIP

The 5 Bands Wire-Beam - This wire-beam has one radiator-element, feeded with 450-Ohm-Wireman-twinlead and needs an antenna-tuner. For the bands 6m, 10m, 12m, 15m, 17m and 20m bended reflector-elements are used. The support is a cross of 4 fibreglass-fishing-rods

The 80 Meter Inverted Vee - W8WWV Greg Ordy 80 meter inverted vee wire antenna

The CE0Y 7 m Triple Leg - The supporting structure is a 15-m-glassfibre mast of DX-Wire. The antenna can be used on all bands from 10 to 40 m.

The CN2WW 80m wire-beam - Description of the 80m antenna used at CN2WW in the ARRL-DX CW 2007

The Cobra antenna - This article explores the Cobra Junior linear loaded antenna for 80m to 10m bands. This antenna is a linear loaded dipole described by W4JOH in 73 magazine June 1997

The extended double zepp - This wire antenna exhibits extraordinarily high gain in a bi directional radiation pattern.

The Half Square vs the Loop Skywire - by Jim Stafford, W4QO appeared in QRP Quarterly, Fall, 2006

The Inverted L Antenna - About Inverted L Antennas on low bands

The inverted V antenna - Dimensions for the inverted V antenna from 160 to 2 meters by N6JSX

The Monoband HF dipole antenna - If you are looking for an easy antenna for your favorite band, you can't go wrong with an halfwavelenght dipole, all you need is 3 insulators and some wire

The Mysterious Cobra - The Cobra antenna explained, article by Rick Littlefield - K1BQT

The reflected W beam - Hexagonal wire beams for all hf bands, technical resource, EZNEC files, tools for antenna modeling and documentation. You can also order parts to build your own antenna.

The Square Vee antenna - KJ5TF square vee wire antenna

The Versatile Vee Beam - An aerial that you can use on all eight High Frequency amateur bands (80, 40, 30, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10m) with an antenna tuner, and which gives significant gain on the five bands from 20 m to 10 m

The vertical Double-Zepp - The vertical Double-Zepp 2x7 m is a very simple, effective 8-Band-antenna. The end of the Dipol must be 5-10 m above the ground

The Zeppelin antenna - It consists of a radiating wire with a length equal to the half-wave of the fundamental frequency for which the antenna is cut.

This old dipole - An antenna construction workshop conducted at Marshall N1FN's QTH

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.

Trap antennas, coaxial trap, coax dipole antenna loss resistance - Testing and comparison of traps and trap antennas

VE7CA portable tribander yagi - 30/17/12 and 20/15/10-Meter Tribanders and a 40 meters inverted V wire yagi antenna

Vee Beam Antenna - A multiband HF Vee Beam antenna at VK5SW. If you're lucky enough to have the room, perhaps you may like to put up a multiband Vee Beam antenna for the HF bands.

VK2ABQ Wire Beams - The VK2ABQ wire beam is described in Les Moxon's HF Antennas for all Locations which also contains the original references, but they are rather difficult to find. The VK2ABQ antenna is a planar wire beam that can be constructed from a single hub and four spreaders.

W0OXB All-band Zep Antenna - W0OXB All-band Centerfed Zep Antenna 160m-6m

W1AB Killer Antenna - An elevated ground plane sized as a 40 meter antenna but fed with ladder line and antenna tuner for hf and 160 meters.

W3HH Antenna - A large bandwidth wire antenna, with a good performance

W3HH Antenna - Homebrewing an W3HH Antenna in french

W3HH antenna for 40 meters - Pictures and plan to build a wire W3HH antenna for 7 Mhz.

W3HH Antennas - W3HH is a wide-band wire antenna article in french

W3HH Multiband antenna - A french pdf file that explain how to build a T2FD antenna in all its parts including balun

W4JOH Cobra Antenna - The original Cobra antenna, is a multiband 160 or 80 to 10 meter, designed by W4JOH is built using standard insulated wire of about 14 gauge and fed with 450 ohm ladder line down to the shack into a tuner.

WH2T Inverted L Antenna info - About a 160 meter band 1/4 wave inverted L antenna

Wire Antenna - This page describes a cheap, weather-resistant and readily available type of antenna wire by HAMwaves.com

Wire Antenna for 75 and 80 Meters - This article is about a wire antenna that covers the entire 3.5 to 4.0 MHz band with an SWR below 2:1 consists of two coupled dipoles, one resonant at about 3.5 MHz and one resonant at about 4 MHz, resulting in the low SWR

Wire Antenna Life - How long should a wire antenna last? Wire antennas are not forever. Installation and quality are major factors in the useful life. Don't forget maintenance. You can avoid an untimely failure.

Wire antenna with coaxial cable traps - This multiband antenna 10-80 meters is a home made project by I1BAY. Has been used for SOTA activations with great results. Traps are done with coax cable turns, dimensions are in the attached schema.

Wire Antennas for Ham Radio - Iulian Rosu YO3DAC / VA3IUL wire ham radio antenna panoramic with sample drawings

Wire Antennas for the Beginner - 1983 - ARRL QST Wire Antennas for the Beginner June 1983

Wire antennas for the low bands - Experiments by G8JNJ on wire antennas for low bands. Based on these tests, conclude that for multiband (160 to 6m) operation, in a restricted area it is very difficult to beat a G5RV, especially the ZS6BK version.

Wire Beams - A family of wire beams by G3TXQ

Wire-Beam - Wire beam antenna for the bands 6m, 10m, 12m, 15m, 17m and 20m

X beams antennas - X bams wire antennas for 15 meters band

Your First 160-Meter Antenna - Notes on building a basic wire vertical or horizontal antenna for 160 meters band by L. B. Cebik, W4RNL

ZZ Wave Net - ZZ Wave Net is a 40 & 80 meter full wave loop designed to fit on a city lot. ZZ Antenna is a folded dipole bent into an inverted V loop