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Folded Dipoles for VHF/UHF Yagis
Make your own VHF/UHF folded dipoles from aluminium tubing. Learn tips for folding yagi, softening the tubing, bending jig and make all waterproofing
CB antennas
Lots of information on fabricating CB antennas
Homebrew your own inductors
Cannot find the inductors you need for an antenna, a tuner or amplifier ? Build your own it is easy!
Installing dipole insulators
Installing your dipole end insulators, a beginner guide to proper setup wires to insultaors.
Ferrite information
Ferrite Toroidal Cores, Magnetic Properties of Ferrite Materials, EMI - RFI Suppression Design Considerations, Ferrite Beads, Ferrites for RFI Ferrite Cores for RFI Suppression by CWS ByteMark
This Old Dipole
An antenna construction workshop conducted at Marshall N1FN's QTH
Building Coaxial Traps
This page describes the design and construction materials W8WWV used to build a coaxial cable trap. A coaxial cable trap is a parallel resonant circuit that is usually inserted in an antenna element to enable multiband operation.
W4RNL Antenna notes
Antenna modelling techniques and examples by W4RNL
Easy tuning an building of traps
A new and simple method for tuning traps. You need 2-3Watt of your TRX and two homemade coupling coils by DK7ZB
Antenna Design Lab by N4UJW
Design and build your own Hf thru Vhf antennas.Contains pictures, plans, parts list of very popular ham antennas along with experimental types.
Analysis Of Antenna Mast Strength and Bending Stress
Calculations for determining the wind loading stress on an antenna mast. Link to a spreadsheet for calculating the mast bending stress based on wind speed and antenna cross sectional area.
Using Delta Matching on HF Beams
Using delta match with HF antennas design
Weatherproof Vertical Antennas - Slim Jim
How to make a Weatherproof Vertically Polarised Omnidirectional Aerial, The Slim Jim Antenna
Antenna Homebrew Links
Antenna Design Lab by N4UJW - Don
Design and build your own Hf thru Vhf antennas Contains pictures plans parts list of ...
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160-meters antenna problems and solutions
Bill Orr W6SAI ham radio techniques Improving ground connection computer analysis of the antenna modelling ...
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50MHz Power Splitters
Splitting an antenna between two receivers or in use as the phasing harness in stacked ...
[ Hits: 3245 | Votes: 6 | Rating: 8 ]
Adjusting HF Antenna Lengths - VK4ADC
Find out how much to adjust the length of a quarter wave whip or a ...
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Analysis Of Antenna Mast Strength and Bending Stress - Mike Kowalsky
Calculations for determining the wind loading stress on an antenna mast Link to a spreadsheet ...
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Antenna construction hints
Hints about Jpole Yagi and Quad antennas
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Antenna Gain Comparison System
This device goal is to optimize homebrew antenna for the V UHF band This tool ...
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Antenna Impedance measurement
When experimenting on an antenna it s often important to determine its feedpoint impedance at ...
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Antenna Insulators for LF-MF - W5JGV
Homebrewing special insulators with PVC and copper corona rings
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Antenna Manufacturing: How to Prevent Galvanic Corrosion - G0UIH
Galvanic corrosion a destructive process triggered by dissimilar metal contact in a corrosive electrolyte poses ...
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Antenna Trimming Chart
Use this chart as an aid in trimming the length of your antenna It gives ...
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Assembling a Spider Beam - SQ6NEJ Kuba
Spider Beam antenna pictures in a youtube video
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Better Feedline Loss Measurements with Antenna Analyzers
Various publications through the years have shown how the SWR measured on a shorted or ...
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Building Coaxial Traps
This page describes the design and construction materials W8WWV used to build a coaxial cable ...
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Building UHF Antennas
This method of construction can be used on most UHF through low microwave Yagis and ...
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CB antennas
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Lots of information on fabricating CB antennas
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Center feed insulator - KC8AON
A center antenna insulator with feedline strain relief
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Choosing right material to make antennas - KB9VBR
Why build antennas out of copper and not aluminum or stainless steel Selecting the best ...
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Choosing the Right Aluminum Stock for Antenna Building - G0UIH
Building an efficient antenna begins with selecting the right aluminum stock This article provides a ...
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Coaxial antennas
G3TXQ study on coaxial cable demonstrate that it can reduce an element s length by ...
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Conductors for HF Antennas
Putting up an antenna for the low bands What kind of wire will you use ...
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Conductors for HF antennas : Foil
About foil conductors
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Constructing simple wire antennas
Simple wire antennas like dipoles and verticals are dead easy to make here s how ...
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Converting RadioShack CB Antenna to 2m - W6OT
Converting a little Radio Shack CB mobile magnet mount antenna to a VHF ham radio ...
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Designing Driven Elements in Yagi antennas - G8MBI
The design and feeding of driven elements for VHF UHF Yagi antennas modeling observations and ...
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Easy tuning an building of traps - Martin
A new and simple method for tuning traps You need 2 3Watt of your TRX ...
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Ferrite information
Ferrite Toroidal Cores Magnetic Properties of Ferrite Materials EMI RFI Suppression Design Considerations Ferrite Beads ...
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Fixture for fast assembling VHF Antennas - UA9UKO
This fixture id intended for fast assembly and disassembly of VHF antennas expecially usefull for ...
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Folded Dipoles for VHF/UHF Yagis
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Make your own VHF UHF folded dipoles from aluminium tubing Learn tips for folding yagi ...
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From Transmitter to Antenna
A collection of articles on the subject of impedance impedance matching and high frequency power ...
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Ham Radio Wire Antenna Tips
Ham radio wire antennas are the most common form of antenna used by ham radio ...
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Home-brew Antennas
Notes on homebrewing antennas by Chris G4CYA from gamma matching to phasing antennas splitters and ...
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Homebrew traps
Traps can be one way round multiband coverage without the need of an atu Learn ...
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Homebrew your own inductors - W3JIP
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Cannot find the inductors you need for an antenna a tuner or amplifier Build your ...
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Homebrewing Yagi Antenna
Some techniques on homebrewing yagi antennas by VK5AJL
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How to straighten Microbore copper tube - Adrian Leggett M0NWK
Article and video showing a technique to straighten Microbore copper pipe that is useful in ...
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Indoor Antenna Construction Tips
Safety tips and troubleshooting ideas by K2ZS
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Installing dipole insulators
Installing your dipole end insulators a beginner guide to proper setup wires to insultaors ...
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K-FACTOR Table & Chart
Determine the K-Factor used as a multiplier when constructing half-wave antennas.
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K5TR'S Antenna Designs - YO files
Antenna designs that K5TR have collected from various sources.
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Metal Fatigue and Antenna Elements
by Technical Topics
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Mounting elements to a boom
Here is an easy method to mount elements to a boom this can be realized ...
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Omega and Gama Matching
Article about omega and gamma matching related to bandwidth loss and component failures heating and ...
[ Hits: 3286 | Votes: 3 | Rating: 7 ]
Open Sleeve Elements
The construction principles for open-sleeve elements in antennas
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Optimizing half-wave sloper arrays for 160 meters
This article presents a 160 meter variation of this family of antennas and more importantly ...
[ Hits: 5243 | Votes: 2 | Rating: 7 ]
Phasing Harness for Stacking Antennas - WB8ERJ
How to build a phasing harness for stacking antennas
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Practical Yagi Building - DG7YBN
A practical guide on hombrewing Yagi antennas including notes on Driven Element Transformation Symmetrising Coax ...
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PVC Yagi antennas - techniques
Collection of different techniques to homebrew PVC yagi antennas including elements assembling baluns and chokes ...
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Radial System Design
Are the lengths of antenna radials related to the height of a vertical By N6LF ...
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Recycling TV Antennas for 2-Meter Use
Green that aluminum into something useful right in your own backyard by WB2CQM
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Rolling your own balanced feed lines
An article by VE1VQ that illustrate how to home made a balanced feed line ...
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The DK7ZB-Match for Yagis
Simple easy to built match developed in 1995 for Yagis with resistitive loads of 12 ...
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This Old Dipole
An antenna construction workshop conducted at Marshall N1FN's QTH
[ Hits: 11839 | Votes: 6 | Rating: 7.17 ]
To Trap or Not to Trap - W4RNL
An interesting article on traps, pros and cons of trapping by W4RNL
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Tuning HF antenna Traps - VK4ADC
Tuning HF Coaxial Antenna Traps
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Use of tripods to assemble and balance big antennas
Here is a way to ease assembly and balancing of a large antenna The elements ...
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Using Delta Matching on HF Beams
Using delta match with HF antennas design
[ Hits: 5668 | Votes: 5 | Rating: 3 ]
W4RNL Antenna notes
Antenna modelling techniques and examples by W4RNL
[ Hits: 6821 | Votes: 56 | Rating: 8.31 ]
Weatherproof Vertical Antennas - Slim Jim
How to make a Weatherproof Vertically Polarised Omnidirectional Aerial, The Slim Jim Antenna
[ Hits: 5480 | Votes: 4 | Rating: 5.75 ]
Wind your own RF Choke
Learn How - Winding your own RF Choke, Inductor Winding instructions
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Wire Antenna Design Lengths - Hawaii Ham Radio Club
The Classic Numbers for All Types of Wire Antennas at HF Wire antennas need to ...
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Wire Sizes
Sizes of wire as compared to their gauge American Wire Gauge by W8HDU
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Yagi antenna construction notes
KA7OEI article on homebrewing Yagi UDA antennas with practical suggestions and designing notes.
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Yagi Antenna Elements Boom Correction - YU1AW
Dragoslav Dobricic YU1AW antennex article on influence of Boom on frequency performance and how compensate ...
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Yagi Element Mounting Considerations
One of the most important considerations when designing and building a Yagi antenna is the ...
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