homebrew rig

K3KY's Short Beverage  ^pop - Originally planned as an 80/160 Beverage, this antenna is a terrific performer on 40 and 30 meters

KK5BL How To Build A G5RV Antenna  ^pop - How to build a G5RV Transmitting antenna Originally posted to the packet bbs system by KC6CFF. The G5RV is an easy-to-build 80-10 dipole requiring no traps. All bands are covered, including 30, 17, and 12. The G5RV has high SWR, by design, on most bands and a tuner is required

G4CQM Homebrew VHF Yagi antennas  ^pop - Homebrew VHF Yagi 50MHz 144MHz 432MHz 1296MHz 2320MHz 6M 2M 70CM 23CM 13CM Yagis

Homebrew G5RV  ^pop - A G5RV plan for 10-160 meters, 10-40 and 10-80 meters band

Active Loop Converter for LF - Active Loop Converter for the LF Band by Lloyd Butler VK5BR originally published in Amateur Radio, July 2000)

Cheap antenna to make from 160m - 6m  ^pop - The antenna is nothing more than a simple 2.4 metre square loop drawing pinned to the internal brick wall of the spare bedroom. Yep, thats right, the inside wall of the spare bedroom - ideal for flat dwellers, hotel rooms or whinging neighbours, The loop has a simple switched inductance at the top of the square loop and uses a simple coaxial stub to tune the antenna. An additional variable capacitor placed across the feedpoint can be used to fine tune the resonance of the antenna, by Andy G0FTD

How to Use an Antenna Tuner - Get maximum power to your antenna by learning how to hook up and use a tunner to properly "trick" your rig

I0QM Bob - Amateur Radio I0QM personal page with station and QSO information. Includes homebrew projects

Yahoo! Groups : VHF_UHF_homebrew - Vhf and UHF homebrewers of hardware and antennas. Find help, idea, or someone with just the same interest as you.

Electronic Construction Tutorial - Everything you wanted to know about building stuff but were afraid to ask." This series was originally published in "73 Amateur Radio" between November 1997 and February 1998

CW Command Post - Replace four separate accessories keyer, keyermemory, audio filter, and audio amplifier-- with one box containing allfour and providing for multiple inputs and outputs. N1FN CW CommandPost A not very original CW operating accessory "put together" by N1FN

CW Operators' QRP Club Inc. - The CW Operators' QRP Club exists for those who enjoy low power amateur radio and homebrewing.

Packet Radio Training Course - Reference Manual developed by the Ventura County ARES AREA 6 Training Group

WA2RQY manuals for sale - List of copies of original equipment manuals

Electronic Test Equipment Manuals - Original manuals supporting the operations, programming, calibration, and servicing of electronic test equipment, HP Fluke Tektronix

Heathkit Original Manuals - Heathkit Heath Original Manuals including Ham Parts, Catalogs, Magazines, and other Brands of Ham Amateur Radio Items, including CQ QST GE RCA ER 73

Natural radio signals - Radio signals of natural origin

RadioTronics - Online UK CB Radio shop specialising in UK CB Radio and 10m Amateur radio equipment. Scanners and multiband receivers also available.

Radio for Peace International - Radio for Peace International (RFPI) is a Global Community Radio Station located in Costa Rica, Central America that broadcasts progressive news on shortwave radio and the internet on topics of Peace, Human Rights and the Environment. RFPI gives a voice to the voiceless by promoting democratic communication.

Democratic Voice of Burma - Democratic Voice of Burma is a multimedia organization focusing on Burma - Myanmar. We provide impartial news, information and analysis about Burma. We have two hour daily radio broadcast to Burma via short wave, promoting press freedom, democracy and human rights. Our news is available in Burmese, English, Arakan, Chin, Kachin, Karen, Karenni, Kayan, Mon and Shan languages.

The mystery of the numbers stations - In response to a question about Numbers Stations, their origin and purpose, the following information should be of interest.

Band Master - Band Master is a program for Radio Amateurs that downloads DX spots and displays them in different ways, including a graphical band map. It can be used either as a stand alone application or as part of a logging or contesting software via the COM/OLE interface. Rig control, country/province resolution, azimuth/distance calculator and online QRZ lookup are built-in, propagation prediction and geographical mapping are available through integration with HamCap and DX Atlas respectively.

Direct Conversion HF Transceiver with DDS LO - Direct conversion HF radio with DDS frequency synthesizer is very interesting concept. OH7SV and OH2NLT are experimenting with such rig. Full stories will become available when project matures. Here we have some preview pictures and material.

Small Signal RF Amplifier - A bipolar small signal RF amplifier

Rig to Soundcard Interface by M0UKD - Practival project that contains two isolation transformers, one for AF from the tranciever to the line in on a soundcard, and one from the audio out of the soundcard back to the mic / data input of the radio. Both of which are variable inside the interface via two preset resistors.