sky wire

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

Installing a balun - The correct way to install a lowngwire antenna with a balun

Longwire Antenna Balun Project  ^pop - Home brew a long wire balun

The Monoband HF dipole antenna - If you are looking for an easy antenna for your favorite band, you can't go wrong with an halfwavelenght dipole, all you need is 3 insulators and some wire

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.

EA6VQ - Open wire feeding and baluns - Discussion about open wire feeding and baluns took place in the Moon-Net reflector.

Homebrew Hex Wire Beam Antenna - Hombrewinf the hex beam antenna by W6OT

To Trap or Not to Trap - An interesting article on traps, pros and cons of trapping by W4RNL

CardboardHorn - Seattle Wireless - A Cardboard Horn antenna for 802.11b

Picture of a multiband dipole  ^pop - Pictures of a multiband dipole, build with simple PVC T and standard electrical wire

A tri-band 2 element portable Yagi - Additional notes and eznec file on original article of a Portable 3-Band Yagi antenna for 10-15-20 meter band made with wire elements, original article published by VE7CA

Installation of a Utility Pole - There are many ways to support an amateur radio antenna. Installatio of a utility pole will provide an antenna height of approximately 13 meters (40 feet) and will require no guy wires.

Pringles Yagi Antenna - Design and build a Pringles Yagi antenna for 2.4Ghz.

Building Helical Antennas - Seattle Wireless - Photos and comments on building an helical antenna for wifi

DirectionalWaveguide - Seattle Wireless - Waveguide antenna is a type of DirectionalAntenna and is a modified waveguide. A waveguide is simply a tube, either rectangular or cylindrical in cross-section, that will carry a microwave radio signal with very low signal loss

PringlesCantenna - Seattle Wireless - The PringlesCantenna is an ultracheap Yagi-type directional antenna that can be built for under $10. The original Pringles Yagi was designed by Andrew Clap.

SardineCanAntenna - Seattle Wireless  ^updated - Sardine Can Antenna. is a BiQuad or Bi circle - wire length each side (8 x 1/4 waves ) 31 mm

DirectionalBiQuad - Seattle Wireless - A biquad is a fairly powerful antenna which is relatively easy to construct, with impressive performance for their size. A link greater than 5 miles can be made with a pair of these as a stand-alone antenna and a Prism2 100mW card, provided you keep coax short, and your line-of-sight is clear.

MicroTV Aerial - Seattle Wireless - Yagi antenna for 2.4Ghz band

2.4GHz Cubic Quad Antenna  ^pop - The Cubic Quad antenna is a commonly homemade antenna in the range of about 150 odd MHz. Our little project was to design one of these for use in the 2.4GHz range for 802.11 wireless LANs.

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

San Angelo Amateur Radio Club - Amateur radio club serving the Concho Valley of West Texas for over 70 years providing public service and SKYWARN severe weather spotting service to the National Weather Service.

BlueSky Mast - Antenna masts, mounts, tripods and poles. Elevating solutions. Portable Antenna Masts