short wave tuner

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

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

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.

The EZ-Tuner - The "EZ-Tuner" is a homebrew automatic legal-limit antenna tuner that covers all amateur HF bands from 160-10 meters. Using a T-network design and controlled by a BASIC Stamp BS2sx microcontroller, the EZ-Tuner will match at least a 16:1 VSWR for either unbalanced or balanced transmission lines.

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

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.

Shortwave Central - Here you will find broadcast, pirate, and clandestine information including loggings, QSLs tips, and last-minute news.

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.

2 Element beam designer - This is a DOS program that will design a 2 element beam for a given frequency. The gain is about 6db's the front to back ratio is about 10 db's. The SWR will be about 1.8 to 1, so for transistor rigs a tuner is needed The only information required is the freq in MHZ..

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.

Building Your Own AM Tuner - Hi-Fi AM Tuner and Amplifier

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.