balun wire 80m

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

2.4Ghz Helix antenna  ^pop - Concise instructions on making a broadband helical antenna for 2.4GHz use, such as: 802.11b wireless networking 2.4GHz video links.

CardboardHorn - Seattle Wireless - A Cardboard Horn antenna for 802.11b

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.

Helical Antenna for 2.4 GHz and 802.11b - The following page details construction of a Helical antenna based on the superb design by Jason Hecker.

802.11b Homebrew WiFi Antenna Shootout  ^pop - Guide to homebrew your wifi antenna, using a tin can, in this cases using a pringles can. This antennas are also known as cantenna and let you spread your wifi signal.

How to build a tin can waveguide antenna  ^pop - Looking for an inexpensive way to increase the range of your wireless network? A tin can waveguide antenna, or Cantenna, may be just the ticket. This design can be built for under $5 U.S. and reuses a food, juice, or other tin can.

A Tincan feed for 2.45Ghz - Construction details for a simple but effective antenna for 2.45Ghz wireless lan use.

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.

2.4 Ghz double quad antenna  ^pop - An easy to build, compact antenna for wireless lan applications that offers a reasonable amount gain.

Pringles Yagi Antenna - Design and build a Pringles Yagi antenna for 2.4Ghz.

Building Helical Antennas - Seattle Wireless - Photos and comments on building an helical antenna for wifi

DirectionalWaveguide - Seattle Wireless - Waveguide antenna is a type of DirectionalAntenna and is a modified waveguide. A waveguide is simply a tube, either rectangular or cylindrical in cross-section, that will carry a microwave radio signal with very low signal loss

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.

SardineCanAntenna - Seattle Wireless - Sardine Can Antenna. is a BiQuad or Bi circle - wire length each side (8 x 1/4 waves ) 31 mm

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.

MicroTV Aerial - Seattle Wireless - Yagi antenna for 2.4Ghz band

BayCountyScanner.org - Listen to public service communications within Bay County, Michigan, USA.

EZ Hang - The perfect tool when you want to put up a wire antenna easily, quickly and safely! EZ HANG can be used to "shoot" a line over a tree or other object over 100 feet high

AN Wireless Tower Company - AN Wireless is a manufacturer and distributor of Self Supporting Tower Systems for Wireless Communications, Wireless Internet, Wireless Networking, Microwave, Paging, Broadcast, Two-Way Radio and Amateur Radio.

Rotating Tower Systems - Using our components you can build a rotating tower with greater capability than 3-4 static towers. A rotating tower allows common rotation of HF stacked arrays, VHF and UHF arrays, and antennas mounted at optimum heights. Component design also allows tower shunt loading and end support for wire antennas

Build an HF Linear Amp  ^pop - Hombrew project to build an HF linear amplifier whose output is 210W for 16W of drive on 80M and max output is 300W.

An 80 m SSB Transceiver - A project for 80M SSB rig including a DSB/SSB exciters, RX, TX and a 30 Watt PA