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The Field Day Special Antenna - Antenna that's simple, inexpensive lightwiight and easy to install

Two portable antennas for 6-meter - VE7CA reprint an interesting article taken from arrl antenna compendium. Two elegant practical and portable 6-meter gain antennas, a two-element quad and a tree-element Yagi antenna for 50 Mhz-6 meter band

The Impact of Current Distribution on Array Patterns - Technical Correspondence, QST, July 1990 - Why even "perfect" phased array element currents don't produce perfect patterns.

The simplest phased array feed system that works - How to calculate "phasing line" lengths that actually work.

A standard double bazooka antenna - Article by Ed WE6W on a double bazooka antenna

Bazooka antennas compared to dipoles - Article and comparison between bazooka antennas and dipole, taking care of effieciency and bandwidth

Folded Bazooka Antenna - Article on building a folded bazooka antenna

W3LPL on Beverages - Frank Donavan, W3LPL , discusses beverages on the CQ-Contest reflector. This is a reprint of Frank's message.

Ground Problems - Collection of articles about ground systems

Antenna Feed Lines for Portable Use - Why twinlead isn't necessarily a low loss feed line.

To Trap or Not to Trap - An interesting article on traps, pros and cons of trapping by W4RNL

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

A tri-band 2 element portable Yagi - Additional notes and eznec file on original article of a Portable 3-Band Yagi antenna for 10-15-20 meter band made with wire elements, original article published by VE7CA

The L‐Network Impedance Matcher - N6LYU Greg article on L-Network

Rob's UK CB Radio information site - Rob’s uk cb radio information website, here you will find information on cb radio, swr, Morse code, frequency charts, 10 codes, q codes, z codes, cb chat room, cb radio forum plus lots more.

A Beginner's Guide to Making CW Contacts - Jack Wagoner WB8FSV, a very well done article on how start a CW QSO, how to answer a CQ, how call your CQ and more. A musr reading for beginners

NARTE Telecommunications Certification Association - Narte, the national association of radio and telecommunications engineers is a non-profit association which offers independent certification to qualifying technicians and engineers practicing a wide range of telecommunications and electronics disciplines.

International Crystal Manufacturing Company - International crystal manufacturing provides quartz crystals, oscillators, precision crystals, filters, tcxos / vctcxos, qcm crystals, and other frequency control products. read details about our crystals and frequency control products and services.

Micro Computer Concepts - Micro Computer Concepts is a manufacture of radio repeaters, repeater controllers and repeater related accessories. MCC started making repeater controllers in 1988 and has supplied the Amateur Radio community with a varity of products.

Army Radio Sales  ^pop - Devoted to all sorts of military radios and their hardware, as well as other interesting military items, and military vehicles. Army Radio Sales website contains a wealth of free information on military radios and military vehicles, as well as on-line manuals, your very interesting articles, thousands of pictures, as well as a fully automated free classifieds advertising section to advertise your needs.

Build a simple rechargeable CMOS Battery - An inexpensive rechargeable CMOS battery system that can be built from readily available parts.

Choosing Wire Size for Toroidal Inductors - Measurements that show it doesn't make much difference

Simple Reverse Polarity Protection - This simple modification is applicable to pretty much any 12 volt operated, positive earth equipment. by Chris Cox, N0UK, G4JEC

Build a Vox Circuit - by Mike Martell N1HFX

Simple Electronic Keyer - A simple keyer which can be built for as little as $6 with some junk box parts. Although this circuit is not a true iambic keyer, it is capable of producing perfectly sounding CW.