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Transmission Line Calculator - This web page allows you to perform transmission line calculations by using an applet instead of a Smith chart

The 7-Hex Driven Vertical Array - The array consists of 7 vertical antennas arranged as 6 verticals in a hexagon shape plus 1 additional vertical in the center of the hexagon

Coax Dipole Calculator - An efficient program to calculate dimensions of coax dipoles, or bazooka antennas considering velocity length of different coax cables. Express dimensions in feet/inch and meters/cm. Freeware by VE3SQB

Antenna Loading Coil Construction Techniques - This page explains how to construct high-Q inductor coils.

Feeding an End-Fed Antenna  ^pop - End-Fed antennas are NOT balanced systems; but neither are verticals, ground planes, discones, windoms, zepps, Marconis, half-slopers, et al. Additionally, the low-impedance antenna port of your transmitter/receiver is not balanced.

Wireless Antenna Connectors - A chart and picture of some of the most common connectors

Magnetic Loop antenna projects Priority listing - This website contains information about HF magnetic loop antennas for amateur radio

Sloper Antenna Tests - Mark Connelly - WA1ION tests on slooper antennas

Quarter Wave Verticals - One of the most useful antennas in the repertoire is the Marconi or quarter wave grounded vertical antenna. Its invention made it possible to halve the length of antennas, simplifying communications, especially at HF and below.

Emtech ZM-2 Antenna Tuner Kit - The Emtech ZM-2 Antenna Tuner is a nifty little portable transmatch for QRP (low power). It utilizes the well-known Z-match circuit, which is especially useful for balanced antennas (like dipoles and loops).

EME Antennas - EME activity at W7IUV

A 90 foot irrigation tubing vertical - Experimenting with making vertical antennas out of aluminum irrigation tubing.

Do-It-Yourself Wireless Antennas - Your guide to wireless antennas, how to build a wireless antenna without spending much money The Pringles Cantenna, Coffee Can Antenna, Parabolic Reflector and Antenna Designs. Combine a homemade Tripod Mount with an inexpensive Pistol Grip and go Wardriving.

Comparison of two windom antennas - The antenna comparison being reported was between a commercial Chelcom 136ft multi-band windom designed for 80m to 10m and a home brew 260ft full size windom designed for 160m to 10m by G0VVN, G3KAU and G3GRO

D3 Antenna for Field Day - D3+ High Performance Antennas for Field Day. This article describes versatile broadband wire antennas. These antennas will double your effective radiated power over a dipole, will be easy and inexpensive to build and install, and will be simple to match.

Wire Antenna - This page describes a cheap, weather-resistant and readily available type of antenna wire by HAMwaves.com

P3A - Russian contest team - On this page you will find information about previous, current and future operations of our contest team, different articles, links and info about contesting, DXing, contests calendar, propagation, antennas, equipment, awards, and much more.

Passion RadioAmateur 2.0 - French Blog about amateur radio and new technologies, Internet, Hyperfréquences (SHF), DX Radio et Contests, Antennas and Videos by F1JXQ

n9adg.com - Amateur radio, Technology, Towers, Land, Wilderness, real estate, Visalia DX Convention Report #1 Flexradio Antennas Dxpedition, Elecraft introduces K3, here are pictures of the radio from the outside and inside from the Visalia DX Convention

Dannex - Swedish manufacturer of broadband antennas designed for multi frequency, medium and long range communication. No tuner required.

Troubleshooting Traps - This article refers mainly to the old Cushcraft 1/4 wavelength AV series of antennas (12AVQ, 14AVQ etc) hence the references to radials. The R series (R5, R7 etc) are 1/2 wavelength antennas, and the radials are NOT 1/4 wavelength resonant.

Used Radio Sales - Sell used low band, mid band and hi band vhf radios and mobile antennas. Used Radio Sales can program these radios to suit your needs.

The SWDXer - SWDXer is the one stop resource for shortwave radio information. Articles include antennas and simple electronics construction.

Accurate Inductance Calculator - This page allows you to calculate in the most accurate way high-Q inductor coils.

Atlas of Ground Conductivity - The ITU-R World Atlas of Ground Conductivity in PDF