short wave listening

Petlowany Three-Band Burner Antenna - The Petlowany Three-Band Burner is a simple, low-cost, trapless short vertical antenna which amazingly works on three HF bands (20, 15 and 10 meters). This web page contains pictures, performance data, and enough construction details so you can homebrew your own.

A Potpourri of 160-Meter Verticals - A potpourri of 160-Meter vertical antennas and modeling issues, inverted-L, 3-element parasitic array, 1/4-wavelength monopole

80 meters Short Dipole - The best antenna is the simple Dipole. If you have height, you even can put up a quarter wave vertical or an inverted, but sometimes you may need shorten version by 4S7NR

The Beverage Antennas - Beverage antenna description for long wave reception, article published on Megahertz magazine in November 1900, in french

CobWebb multiband folded dipole - It is basically a 5 band antenna comprising of 5 full half wave dipoles for each band - between 10M & 20M, the antenna is also resonant on 6M

N2CX on End-Fed Halfwave Antennas - This original N2CX article was first published in the 72 newsletter back in 1997 or 1998.

"Halfer" End-Fed Halfwave Antenna  ^pop - End-Fed Half-Wave Antenna for the 7 or 10 MHZ amateur bands intended to provide a very simple to erect yet effective portable QRP antenna.

Making a half wave coax cable - How to make a half l or quarter l coax cable for a specific frequency

Super J-Pole for 435MHz - The Super J Pole antenna is a co-linear vertical consisting of a number of half wave length vertical elements separated with half-wave length stubs (Tuning stub) feed with a folded matching stub by vk6ysf

An End Fed Half Wave Antenna - This end fed type of antenna was marketted in the UK and is a useful system for the portable set-up. Being a half wave, no radials or counterpose wires are needed.

Rhombic Antenna for Shortwave Radio Broadcasting - Rhombic antenna for shortwave radio broadcasting, general description and radiation patterns

Optimizing half-wave sloper arrays for 160 meters - This article presents a 160-meter variation of this family of antennas and, more importantly, a discussion of the details of how to get such a beast working really well.

Antennas for MF and LF - Long Waves, Short Antennas, designing antennas for MF and LF communications

Currents in Standing-Wave Antennas - How can the current "flowing" out of the top of a mobile loading coil be greater than the current "flowing" into the bottom of the coil?

Short radials for ground-plane antennas - Think your elevated radials always have to be full size? N6LF lets you in on some great ideas to lessen the “wingspan” of radials, especially near the beach.

50 MHz and Up Group of Northern California - A non-profit public service and educational amateur radio organization specializing in advanced and experimental microwave communications.

K6BJ - Santa Cruz Co. Amateur Radio Club - The santa cruz county amateur radio club. activities, the newsletter short skip, events, links and other happenings about amateur radio.

Western Amateur Radio Association - The Western Amateur Radio Association, founded in 1978, is a Ham radio club based in Fullerton, California. The club supports and participates in many activities, including Field Day, transmitter hunting, microwave, satellite, and APRS, to name a few.

The Caltech Radio Frequency and Microwave Group - Develop microwave amplifiers and related products

Trilithic - Broadband instruments, R and microwave components and filters, field analyzers, spectrum analyzers

Amateur Business CB Radios - Sell 2-Way radios and Accessories. Amateur Radio, Business Radio, CB Radio, FRS & GMRS, MURS, VHF-Marine Radio, Shortwave & Wideband Receivers, Police-Scanners in WA Usa

Achims Free Radio Desaster Priority listing - European free radio on shortwave and mediumwave.

US Shortwave Listener Call Signs - Easily obtain an official call sign identifier for your United States SWL Monitoring Station.

SWLing.com - Your beginner's guide to shortwave radio

K8RA P2 Iambic Key Review Priority listing - A short review of the K8RA P2 Iambic key, and a few pictures by W4INF