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How to Tune Dipole Antennas - This is a standard calculation method that can help you while tuning dipole antennas, by adjusting wire lengths. This method can be used also when you need to add lenght to your wires, and can be additionally used to quarter waves vertical antennas
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Tuning EH antennas - How correctly tune an EH antenna using an antenna analyzer
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Open Wire Feed Line a second look - Put up the longest dipole you can fit, feed it with open wire line, connect it to the balanced output of your tuner and poof! Instant multiband antenna. Is life really that simple?
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Homebrew an OCF Off-Center Fed Dipole Antenna - This type of antenna is a popular antenna design as the performance is very good across the HF bands and requires little or no tuning. It’s a dipole fed off center with a 4:1 balun at the offset feed point. The antenna shown covers 80, 40, 20 and 10 meters. The formula can also be used to adjust the overall length to cover more or fewer bands and the resulting overall length. 160-10m, 80-10m or 40-10 meters depending on your available space. Other bands will require a tuner.
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M1IOS - Wonder Whip antenna and tuner - M1IOS Wonder Whip antenna - The M1IOS Wonder Whip A 10 dollars QRP Portable Multiband Antenna for HF, VHF and UHF A variation on the Miracle Whip and Wander Wand. This antenna tuning unit will get your SWR really low on telescopic whips, mobile 3/8th antenna and long wires. A remarkable little tuner that really works!
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How to build a tuned loop antenna - How can you vastly improve your Medium Wave reception? its quite simple really, all you need is 120 foot of wire, a few lengths of timber and an old tuning capacitor with which you can build the answer to every DX'ers prayers, a tuned loop antenna.
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Homebrew your own inductors ^pop - Cannot find the inductors you need for an antenna, a tuner or amplifier ? Build your own it is easy!
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Tuning HF Coaxial Antenna Traps - The problem with making your own trapped HF antennas is usually getting the coaxial traps tuned to frequency.
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Tuning Antenna Traps - The problem with making your own trapped HF antennas is usually getting the coaxial traps tuned to frequency. This article explains a method using a RF signal generator at +10dBm output into the coaxial trap.
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How to Use an Antenna Tuner - Get maximum power to your antenna by learning how to hook up and use a tunner to properly "trick" your rig
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Tenna Dipper Kit - The "Tenna Dipper" is a low power antenna analyzer and ATU tuning aid. With this handy accessory, you can determine the 50 Ohm resonance frequency of antennas or you can adjust your antenna tuner for a 50 Ohm match without generating QRM
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Getting the most from your tuner - Here is how to adjust this popular tuner circuit so it transfers maximum power to your antenna without going snap
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