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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

Antenna Baluns: What they are - Baluns what do they do, in a pdf file by W7EL

Balun and Transformer Core Selection - Occasionally errors are made regarding core selection. This especially includes baluns, where on occasion some very strange ideas surface.

Choke balun  ^pop - Essentially, a choke balun is designed to 'divorce' your antenna from the feed line. if your feed line is coaxial cable then you don't want it to be part of your antenna. you want to be able to deliver all your power to the radiator itself, i.e. 'the antenna'. a choke balun does this admirably

Biquad Antenna Construction - This page details the construction of a biquad antenna. The biquad antenna is easy to build, and provides a reliable 11dBi gain, with a fairly wide beamwidth.

Dish 802.11 Wireless Networking Antenna - This antenna modification is for the IEEE 802.11b networking protocol that operates at 2.4 GHz. It can be scaled easily to the 5 GHz frequency used by IEEE 802.11a by simply scaling the dimensions on the feed can and the excitation antenna to 2.4/5 = 48% of the dimensions shown above.

DirectionalBiQuad - Seattle Wireless - A biquad is a fairly powerful antenna which is relatively easy to construct, with impressive performance for their size. A link greater than 5 miles can be made with a pair of these as a stand-alone antenna and a Prism2 100mW card, provided you keep coax short, and your line-of-sight is clear.

W9DC IOTA and lighthouse awards - W9dc north america amateur radio checkpoint for iota islands on the air and wlh world lighthouse award applications and award instructions

G3kma, iota manager's website - Iota - islands on the air - is an amateur radio programme run by the rsgb (radio society of great britain) to promote contacts with island stations worldwide on the radio amateur frequency bands.

KB2MOB Blog - Pilot of The Airwaves

Remote-Controlled HF Operations - If you can’t get on the air from home, the Internet may provide the answer. By Brad Wyatt, K6WR. Pdf File.

GlobalTuners.com - GlobalTuners provides access to web controlled receivers. Listen to Ham radio, Tune Shortwave radio, Listen to Air traffic control, experience Airband receptio including ACARS and Airports. Tune remotely controlled receivers all over the world with your browser and get live audio.

Kiwa Electronics - Kiwa Electronics is a company that specializes in accessory equipment for the radio enthusiast. Our products include Filter Modules to improve receiver performance, a High Performance Medium Wave Air Core Loop Antenna for improved broadcast band reception, the Pocket Loop Antenna, the Earth Monitor, BCB Rejection Filter and Broadband and SW Preamps. We also offer numerous performance upgrades for popular receivers.

K4TR Antennas - K4TR Manufacture and sell simple dipoles, half square 2 wire phased vertical arrays, end fed zepp antennas, G5RV antennas. 1:1 baluns

CAL-AV Labs, Inc. - Cal-av labs, inc. (formerly california avionics laboratories, inc.) manufactures electronic instruments and systems for research and industry. we specialize in radio communications and research/electronic test products. Amateur radio yagi antennas, rotary dipoles, baluns, morse keys.

Domino - Domino is the name given by the developers to a family of IFK coded coherent phase single tone MFSK keyed modes, using sequential tone-pairs in two alternate fields arranged as orthogonal but interleaved tone sets.

Icom IC-746 backlight repair - Many Icom IC-746's suffer from intermittent or non-functioning LCD backlights. Here how it can be solved

Amateur Radio Service / ARS - ARS repairs all major brands of Amateur Radio equipment (Icom, Kenwood, Yaesu, Alinco, etc.) in our Portland Oregon area service facility

The Willco electronics no-fail memory - Memories repair and replacements for Icom Radios

Beltronics, Inc. - Beltronics is a factory authorized Kenwood, Icom & Yaesu (Vertex/Standard) Repair Center, Hollis, NH

Tri-Star Communications - Professional only repair services, public safety devices and scanner dealer in Illinois USA. Does not offer consumer electronics service.

RadioLabs - Radio, Wireless and Beyond - Specialize in engineering, design and repair of all rf equipment. Dealer for two way radios, scanners, shortwave radios, wi-fi antennas, wifi amplifiers. Based in Fortuna, California.

Radios 4 you - Radios 4 you inc. where quality radios and other electronic products are blended with fair prices to produce excellent value for you. radios specializes in shortwave radios, solar rechargeable radios, am radios, and fm radios for sale.

WD8LQB CountyLog - CountyLog windows amateur radio logging program. Log county contacts, export to ADIF, and access the Who's on the Air Database. Commercial version with free limited version availbale.

TalkingLogBook - A Windows Freeware general purpose logging and CAT rig control program, primarily for the visually impaired. It has options for improving screen readability including the option of changing font size. Turn on the synthetic speech capabilities and your PC can announce frequency and mode information from the radio and log book information.