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

Transmitting Baluns - One of the most popular Ham-lore rumors is a balun's performance can be tested or evaluated by grabbing the coax and watching for an SWR change. This is probably one of the worse test-rumors circulating

RF in shack with vertical and longwire antennas - Why a vertical antenna or longwire antenna might require a balun

W1CG Low Power Balun Kit - Contruction manual to build a 4:1 balun, it has good performance from 160 through 10 meters.

A T-Match ATU  ^pop - An homebrew antenna tuner project

Detuning Towers - The goal of detuning is not to avoid resonance, but rather to minimize re-radiation and/or current in the interfering structure.

A 16 Turn S-Band Helix - This design represents the smallest practical antenna for Oscar-13 mode-S. Perfect beacon reception at all times is possible, and acceptable SSB even at 43,000 km range.

13 cm Helix Antenna  ^pop - Here is the design of a 2.4 GHz antenna that is ideal for amateur satellite communications. This antenna is easy to assemble because the design itself tolerates inaccuracies in the construction without really affecting performance.

Homebrew Hex Wire Beam Antenna - Hombrewinf the hex beam antenna by W6OT

A Horn Antenna for 2.4 GHz. - This Antenna is not really practical for AO-40 reception, but horn antennas have a number of qualities useful in microwave antenna testing and noise figure measurements.

Portable HF antennas - Excel sheet containing technical comparisons of commercial HF portable antennas compiled by ON4SKY. Includes pictures, manufacturer, db gain, band coverage, F/B ratio, price, weight and dimensions.

A Modern Thermocouple Ammeter - Thermocouple ammeters are very rare these days, but the job they were perfect for - measuring antenna currents - is still a modern requirement especially in respect to groundplane currents. By David A. Reid PA3HBB G0BZF

Radiation and fields - Electric Fields, magnetic fields, electromagnetic fields, losses, fresnel zone, nearfield and farfield

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.

WLAN antenna 2.4 GHz Do-It-Yourself  ^{updated  pop} - A simple homebrew outdoor antenna to 2.4 GHz band.

A Quadruple Helix for AO-40 - A homebrew project of a quadruple helix antenna system based on G3RUH 16 turn helix antenna for 2.4 GHz.

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.

RFAC Solutions - RF Connectors Cable Assembly Attenuators Filters High Power VHF Amplifiers, Adapters MMCX MCX SMA SMB SMC BNC TNC N from RFAC Solutions

Electronika International Inc - Electronika International Inc, Cleveland, OHIO manufacturers wide range of Coaxial Cable Assembly, Coaxial Connectors & Adapters, Power Dividers, Attenuators, Coaxial Switches, Amplifiers, Fiber Optic cords, Bias TEE, Isolator & Circulator and other products

F5VLB amateur radio astronomy station Priority listing - F5VLB and EA4EOZ have designed a small but powerful system using satfinder and standard LNB to make radioastronomy. A step by step descritpion for the novice about radioastronomy, VLB and listening to echo of meteorite.

R7 Vertical Maintenance and Repair - How repair the traps, and then homebrew the rest of the antenna, including the matching box

ALA Amplifiers - Canadian dealer for many RF Amplifier brands

Automotive RFI elimination - ARRL pdf file on how remove car noise from your radio. Modern vehicles are RF noisy environments. Come learn how to identify and silence yor mobile noise sources, by WA6PDP

ARRLWeb: Solving Ignition Noise RFI - Solving Ignition Noise RFI article. Help on removing noise interfences caused by ignition

Alternators & Batteries - Influence of batteries on RFI and noise generation by k0bg