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Quagi and Yagi on 2 Meters - Designing quagi and yagi antennas on 2 Meters, some preliminary notes by Cebik, W4RNL

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

Six Meter Wavelength Band Antennas - Why 6 meter hams design the best antennas

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

WB6ZQZ 3 in 1 Balun - Builing a triple ration balun, that match resonant antennas from 9 ohms to 75 ohms with 1.5:1 or less SWR

Dipole Height  ^pop - How High should my Dipole be? Dipole Antennas and the effect of height above ground

Wire Antenna Life - How long should a wire antenna last? Wire antennas are not forever. Installation and quality are major factors in the useful life. Don't forget maintenance. You can avoid an untimely failure.

Loop Antenna Design - Full-wave loops are very popular antennas. They are especially useful on 80 and 40 meters where they perform well at modest heights

Loading inductors in mobile antennas - Mobile antennas, loading coil current, and loaded antennas. efficiency and electrical rules. Loading inductors used in mobile HF antennas.

HFPack: pedestrian antennas - A pedestrian antenna is considered to be a lightweight antenna that can easily be carried to the shootout by one person in a backpack or bag.

Why Quads - Why quads are considered best antennas by ve3sqb

Vertical plane antennas' beaming comparision - Animated quad and yagi comparison. You can see antennas' characteristics behavior in a vertical plane with changing of the height.

The Quagi antenna - History of quagi antennas, by Wayne Overbeck, N6NB

Trap antennas, coaxial trap, coax dipole antenna loss resistance - Testing and comparison of traps and trap antennas

About trap antennas - Negatives sides of using trap antennas

CSVHFS Antenna Gain Measurements - The Central States VHF Society has conducted Antenna Gain Measurements since its inception in 1967. Comparisons between commercial and homebrew antennas, between different homebrew designs, and between different commercial designs. Mostly VHF UHF and up antennas.

Coaxial Traps for multiband antennas - A new perspective on the analysis and design of this popular antenna element. By Karl-Otto Müller, DG1MFT

Cebik antennas and limited space dipoles - An analysis of the cebik dipole and other small limited space dipoles fed with open wire ladder line.

Installing Wire Antennas - Before selecting an antenna system, you must first find a place to put it. A selection of techniques to setup antennas upon trees using pulleys or other tools

High Performance Wire Antennas - Popularity doesn't guarantee high antenna performance, disadvantages of trap antennas

A two element yagi bean - Simple gain antennas for the beginner, a 2 element yagi antenna

KU4AB Antennas - VHF UHF Antennas, SQ line antennas

Jetstream - Antennas, base mobile scanner and vhf antenna, coax cables, coax switch, Lightning Arrestor, mounts, power supply, speakers and wattmeters

ARRLWeb: Automobile - Hams have been putting stations in their cars since the Twenties. Today, there is great satisfaction in facing the challenge of installing a transceiver in our small cars and pick-ups, using somewhat inefficient antennas

HFPack - HFpack provides an information exchange about transceivers, antennas, systems, HF packs, propagation, new developments and techniques in HF portable operation. Radio Amateurs are invited to participate in egroup and on-the-air nets around the world.