6m dipole

VHF rubber duck Portable Antenna - You can make your own 2-meter "rubber duckies" that will likely perform much better than many commercial units.

W5VMs Shorty 40 Antenna - A shortened dipole for 40 meters band by Martin E. Meserve

4:1 coax balun design - Online calculator for a 4 to 1 coax cable balun

Bent Dipole with gain - Bent dipole plan by G8MNY

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

Folded dipole antenna by N4SPP - A quarter size cobra dipole antenna, a multiband dipole antenna for 40 to 10 meters basedn on original cobra dipole design but with a limited space by N4SPP

Center feed insulator - A center antenna insulator with feedline strain relief

Hentenna for the 6m band - An Hentenna plan for six meters band

Constructing simple wire antennas - Simple wire antennas like dipoles and verticals are dead easy to make: here’s how

430 MHz portable yagi - UHF 3 element portable antenna with gamma match by ON6MU

Portable antenna comparison - Common antennas for portable use compared. A vertical antenna, a dipole antenna an inverted V and a fan dipole all at same height.

The Petlowany Principle - Spipral antenna principle by a concept of Bill Petlowany, K6NO. Tak Antennas are based on this principle, using spirals as dipole linear wires.

Dipoles versus Verticals - One of the classic arguments in amateur radio is whether a dipole or vertical is the best antenna

144MHz omnidirectional antenna - A full wave 2-meter VHF omnidirectional antenna by ON6MU

WA6MVG Amateur Radio Station - Amateur radio,ham radio,shortwave listening,scanner links and current weather conditions,weather advisories,and weather forecast from a personal weather station located in Auburn, Washington

JT6M.org - The purpose of this web site is to promote JT6M as a mode of communication on both 6M and 4M band and guide users through setting up and using JT6M effectively. Optimised for 6 metre band Meteor Scatter, JT6M allows you to make meteor scatter contacts easily. JT6M is part of the WSJT suite of digital weak signal software applications developed by Joe Taylor, K1JT

Meteor Shower Calendar - This lists the major shower activity and is compiled from information available on the net

Windipoles - Windipoles is a free passive filter simulator. It is a Windows .NET executable, so no software installation is required. It enables design, analysis, optimizations and plots, all graphically.

Homemade HF +50MHz Antenna tuner - HF/6M antenna tuner preselector and antenna switcher project by ON6MU

Fitting a PL259 to a coaxial cable. - Fitting a plug to thin, 6mm, coaxial cable will require a PL-259 either made for the small diameter cable

Connect a frequency counter to MFJ 9406 - Modification to connect a frequency counter to a MFJ-9406 50 MHz transceiver by ON6MU

QRP AM CW transmitter - A simple low-power broadcast-type circuit, using a crystal oscillator integrated circuit and an a collector modulated AM oscillator

Kenwood TM-441 Modification  ^updated - 9600 Baud modification on the Kenwood TM441 by ON6MU

Kenwood TH-215 TH-415 mods - Unfilter LF output from the TH215/415 kenwood portable radio

Condor 16 project by ON6MU - Project Condor16 VHF transceiver