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Generic 2 Meter J-Pole antenna - Here's an antenna that you can take with you. This is made from cheap flat 300 ohm TV antenna wire.

Morgain Antenna for 40/80 - Simple and cheap antenna for 40/80 meter band

50MHz J-Pole Antenna  ^pop - Need a general purpose antenna on the magic band? The J-Pole is an easy-to-build and inexpensive device that provides an omni-directional vertically polarised antenna without the need for a ground plane. In technical terms, it is an end fed vertical 1/2 wave which is fed via a 1/4 wave matching stub.

80M Vertical antenna with capacitance hat  ^pop - Simple wire antenna cheap to make, using readily available materials, Low angle radiation, with rejection of high angle signals Wide bandwidth, with resonance at the 80M DX window (3.790-3.800 MHz); and Maximum height is 40 feet

J-Pole theory  ^pop - The J-Pole antenna is an omnidirectional antenna that can be used for base, mobile and field day stations. It does not need a ground plane, radials or a complicated matching system. The J-Pole can be cheaply, simply and quickly constructed using a variety of techniques, some of which are discussed in this article.

Antennas for HF mobile operation  ^pop - The following description should give you guidance on how to build a mobile antenna for HF bands yourself, using a very cheap CB-mobile whip antenna base. Antennas for mobile operation 7Mhz ,10Mhz, 14Mhz, 18Mhz, 21Mhz, 24Mhz,28-430Mhz

Portable Rabbit-Ears Dipole Antenna - This handy and cheap portable dipole can be folded and backpacked, carried in use, and adjusted to a very wide range of frequencies by KV5R

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

Cheap antenna to make from 160m - 6m  ^pop - 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

Cheap VHF/UHF Antennas  ^pop - Cheap Yagi Antennas for VHF/UHF

802.11b Antenna on the Cheap - Build a 802.11b antenna using PVC, some cheap copper tubing, a Pringles can, and some scrap cardboard, in a few hours. Tests state a 12db gain on 2.4 Ghz

PringlesCantenna - Seattle Wireless - The PringlesCantenna is an ultracheap Yagi-type directional antenna that can be built for under $10. The original Pringles Yagi was designed by Andrew Clap.

QRP homebrew equipment by py2ohh - py2ohh homebrewing of receivers, transmiters and Test Equipment for ham and swl, using cheap, easy to find or surplus components

Batteries.com - Buy batteries for laptop computers, camcorder, lithium, cordless phone, UPS, watch, hearing aid, camera and other power supplies faster, easier and cheaper.

Cheapham.com - ARRL, Heil, Larsen, Pryme/ADI products at discount prices

Cheap QSL'S - Low cost QSL cards for the Amateur and SWL

QSL Card Albums and Organizers - Cheap qsl card holders, albums and organizers. Fast delivery also has a number of other archival safe products through archivesafe.com and qsl card paper for printing your own qsl cards.

10 W Linear Amplifier - This article describes a 10 watt linear amplifier that is capable of delivering over 15 watts into 50 ohms and uses cheap plastic transistors that are used in CB equipment. by Harry Lythall - SM0VPO

Easy Kilowatt Linear Amplifier  ^pop - Rf amplifier for hf ham radio service - includes easy to understand designs and penny-cheap construction details

2 m. Band VHF PA 5 Watts - A VHF power amplifier made with two cheap RF transistors, 2N3924 as driver and a BFS22A for final stage, giving an unexpected output power of 7-8 watts maximum

Antenna elevator system for amateur satellites  ^pop - Smart homebrew antenna-ELEVATOR system with linear actuator. The actuator is a cheap and heavy tool with high enough torque, ideal for elevation systems, but in practice it needs quite an effort in order to operate correctly in your homebrew antenna system. This page inform you of the actuator's secrets.

Coax Switch 160-10 meter - Cheap and Dirty Coax Switch by Glen E. Zook, K9STH

Cheap and simple HF dummy load - This is the report of a MFJ-259B analysis of two 100 ohm / 5 watts resistors in parallel partially in italian

A cheap noise reducing speaker - Noise Reduction on the Cheap PDF File

A cheap S Meter - A low-level voltage meter and could even be used for audio purposes.