transmission lines

Antenna Feed Lines for Portable Use - Why twinlead isn't necessarily a low loss feed line.

Antenna Transmission Line Power Splitters - Several ways of splitting power to feed two like (50 ohm terminal impedance) antennas.

Let's talk transmission lines - Don’t neglect one of the most important parts of your station!

Transmission Lines - About feed lines, parallel lines and coaxial lines, notes on impedance, SWR, Baluns, velocity factor and more by NZART

AA3RL Transmission Line Calculator - Excel spreasheet that calculate virtually every transmission line parameter that one may need. Include Length conversions, Reactance and Length of Stubs

Where Does the Power Go - An Energy Analysis at an Impedance Discontinuity in an RF Transmission Line

Eliminating TX RF Feedback Problems - Malfunction of transceivers due to stray RF pickup is a common problem, especially when using end-fed antennas, high-impedance feedlines, or a poor ground counterpoise

Hex Beam by K4KIO - This site provides guidelines to build a G3TXQ broad band hex beam RF antenna for the 5 ham radio bands, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10 meters. The G3TXQ hex beam is a new development and actually easier to build than the classic hexbeam.

Speedometers SWR Meters and Smith Charts - Have wondered why a Smith chart has such strange grid lines. Believe it or not, there is a logical progression from Speedometers to Smith charts that will make the Smith grid crystal clear.

Putting a Balun and a Tuner Together - Two wire transmission line as a three terminal Device , The W2DU and W7EL models of a choke balun, The effectiveness of a balun. Article by Kevin Schmidt, W9CF

Michigan Antique Radio Club - Michigan Antique Radio Club, or MARC. The MARC was officially founded October 19, 1985 at the Dillon Inn (now the Hampton Inn) in Lansing, Michigan. Our mission: To preserve the history and enhance the knowledge of radio, television and related disciplines

G4LIP G8P - Parallel Lines Contest Group - Home page of the parallel lines contest group - g4lip/p

NARTE Telecommunications Certification Association - Narte, the national association of radio and telecommunications engineers is a non-profit association which offers independent certification to qualifying technicians and engineers practicing a wide range of telecommunications and electronics disciplines.

Sound samples of digital transmissions - Sound samples of the transmission modes recorded at 11025 samples per second, mono and the message in all of the samples is the same: "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 1234567890".

RF HAMDESIGN - An engineering oriented organization specializing in the design and manufacture of high performance parabolic antennas, 3dB high power RF couplers, Antenna power splitters, directional RF couplers and more items for RF transmission from HF through Microwave frequencies.

NETCERTUS ampsequencer - Advanced microprocessor driven control board specifically designed to buffer CW key signals while switching the amplifier to transmission, it can also be used to provide proper TX delay timing for RTTY.

DEHN, Inc. Surge & Lightning Protection Priority listing - Offering transient voltage surge suppressor, TVSS, patch cables, surge arresters, surge protectors for lightning and power surge protection for electrical equipment, IT networks, communication systems, data lines, relay systems and solid state controllers.

Nicola Tesla autobiography - Free pdf book on Nicola Tesla. He is the true unsung prophet of the electric age; without whom our radio, auto ignition, telephone, alternating current power generation and transmission, radio and television would all have been impossible

glfer - glfer is a program for reception and transmission of QRSS/DFCW signals. It is composed of two main parts: the spectrogram window, where you can see the spectrum of the received signal vs. time the transmission functions, to emit cw characters at a slow but precisely controlled speed, using the QRSS (slow CW) or DFCW (Dual Frequency CW) modes

DTMF decoder - A very easy to use program to decode DTMF dial tones found on telephone lines with touch tone phones. The DTMF Decoder is also used for receiving data transmissions over the air in amateur radio frequency bands.

ChirpPix - ChirpPix converts a bitmap image to a wave file, which can then be sent by a SSB transmitter and received on spectrogram waterfall displays Image Transmission using ChirpPix and ChirpHell

Virtual Legacy Radio - Windows remote control for Yaesu or Icom. Displays the current transceiver settings frequency, mode, and others on the PC in an old-fashioned way that corresponds to the look of receivers in 70's. DX-Cluster Watch (DCW) is an application that automatically refreshes a web page with the dx-cluster content, parses spot lines from it, keeps a consolidated list and inserts the spots to VLR as frequency markers by OK1FIG

Voice descrambler - This program descrambles band inverted encrypted transmissions, usually found on VHF/UHF. It uses a NCO (numerical controlled oscillator) to re-produce the originally inverted audio band. Use it only if legally permitted in your country. I assume no responsabilities deriving from its use. Standard disclaimer applies

ATPDEC - Atpdec is an open source program that decodes images transmitted by POES NOAA weather satellite series. These satellites transmit continuously, among other things, medium resolution images of the earth on 137Mhz. These transmissions could be easily received with an inexpensive antenna and dedicated receiver. For more information about receiving POES satellite images consult the rig site.

Coax cable data - Characteristics of commonly used transmission lines