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Dipole Calculation - Determining your proper length for the open half-wave dipole antenna

T2FD, The Forgotten Antenna - The terminated. tilted, folded dipole T2FD is a little known antenna that performs excellently. Compact in size compared to a half­-wave dipole the T2FD provides signal gain, wide frequency coverage, and exceptionally low noise characteristics.

K7MEM Center-Fed Half-Wave Dipole ( 3-30 MHz) - A Center-Fed Half-Wave Dipole is probably the simplest of antennas to construct and use. It is usually suspended between two supports, from it's end insulators, and has the feedline hanging from the center.

How to make a Simple Dipole Antenna - It is very easy to create a simple 1/2 wave dipole, all you need is some lengths of wire such as the core of some mains flex or even a straightened out metal coat hanger, some co-ax cable and a connector for your scanners antenna input

VSWR Explained - An interesting article on Voltage Standing Wave Ratio vs Current Standing Wave Ratio by EPARA

Axial-Mode Helical Antennas - Notes on Axial-Mode Helical Antennas in Amateur Service. Helix Basics, Modeling Issues, and Short Helical Antennas Over Perfect Ground

Helical Feed Antennas - Helical antennas have long been popular in applications from VHF to microwaves requiring circular polarization, since they have the unique property of naturally providing circularly polarized radiation. Paul Wade W1GHZ

Helical/helix antenna 2.4 GHz HOWTO - Helical/helix antenna cookbook recipe for 2.4 GHz wavelans and/or WiFi applications

Hula Hoop Loop antenna - The concept of the "Hula Loop" came after many years of building medium wave loops of varying size, shape and performance. Usually these loops are constructed on a square wooden frame, with wire being wrapped around the periphery

A short Quagi for 1298Mhz - Based on K5OE design by GM1SXX

Wire receiving loop antenna - A quick and easy to build loop antenna for shortwave listeining can tune from 5 to 18 Mhz

The Lindenblad antenna - The ultimate satellite Omni Antenna by Howard Sodja, W6SHP. The Lindenblad antenna consists of four half wave folded dipoles slanted 30 degrees to the horizon, oriented 90 degrees to each other in azimuth, spaced 0.3 wavelength apart

Building the WiFi parabolic antenna Priority listing - Building a Bell ExpressVu satellite dish with a waveguide coffee can cantenna feed, and a Netgear USB Rangemax wifi card (WPN111).

WD2XGJ Experimental Station - Experimental Longwave Transmissions from Tower Hill wayland Massachusetts Operator Name Warren, Ham Call K2ORS, Frequency: 137.7796 KHz

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.

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

3 EL Quad Designer - This DOS program will figure the wire sizes for a 3 element quad and will also give you the distance from the center of the boom to drill your holes for mounting the wire on the spider. it also gives you the length of the 4 quarter wave lengths of wire in case you would like to figure the spreader drill points yourself.

Quarter wave vertical Designer - Want to build a Quarter Wave Vertical, this DOS program shows you how.

ILG Rig Control - International listening guide (ILG) ILG Short Wave Radio Control Program

Bitscope Waveform Generator - Integrated DSP based waveform generator and timing for BitScope. Arbitrary waveforms, synchronized clocks and external triggers.

SweepGen - SweepGen turns a PC into an Audio Oscillator and Sweep Generator which can be used for testing audio or educational purposes. In conjunction with audio test instruments, you can make frequency response plots. SweepGen uses the sound card in your PC to produce sinewaves

Sine Wave Generator - Freeware windows Wave Generator use the sound card's output as sine wave output. A built in sweep algorithm is used by audio hackers to measure frequency repsonses of their amplifiers

Simple adjustable passive attenuator - This adjustable passive attenuator works as a "waveguide beyond cutoff." It can be constructed in about ten minutes from parts available locally.

Simple anti-static device - With all the wire you have out, you may run into a problem with static buildup on the antennas. This static may try to make its way into your receiver, causing you major problems and damage that can run into a lot of money.

The Smart Switch - The purpose of this project is to build a smart switch A smart swith is a swith that needs a short press and the power will be turned ON.