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Longwire Antenna Instructions
Instructions for Putting up a Long-Wire Antenna
AM Antennas
The ultimate AM loop antenna article. It is the only article that includes the calculations and detailed plans
Longwire antenna basics
basic notes on building longwire antennas for medium waves
Magnetic Loop antenna
Why is an Magnetic Loop antenna so special, this antenna is picking only the magnetic part of the elektro magnetic radio wave. The big advantage of this antenna is that the electric interference from the big city have no influence on the received signal
Grounding is key to good reception
Guidelines to groundings.
A Small Wire Loop Antennas for 160 meters
Low noise, receive only coax loop antennas for 160 - 10 meters HF bands
Roofspace Antennas
How to build a roofspace antennas and get them to work. Explains how to build an effective antenna in your roof. Very interesting if you don't have possibilities to setup an antenna in your roof.
SWL home made antennas
Short guide to home made antennas for shortwave reception, in pdf format
Balun for HF wire antennas
Schema of a self made balun used to match randmon wire antennas, mainly for shortwave listening pourposes, in italian
Choosing wire for an antenna
One of the most asked questions when it comes to antennas is what kind of wire should I use
Inverted L antenna
The ever-popular inverted L antnna, a fast to implement and setup shortwave antenna project by Arnie Coro C02KK

Shortwave Antennas Links

80/160m Small Receiving Loop - N3OX 80m/160m rx loop
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A Magnetic Loop Antenna for Shortwave Listening (SWL) by KR1ST - A well documented plan to build a magnetic loop antenna for Shortwave Listening, includes photos and diagrams.
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A Small Wire Loop Antennas for 160 meters ^pop - Low noise, receive only coax loop antennas for 160 - 10 meters HF bands
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AM Antennas ^pop - The ultimate AM loop antenna article. It is the only article that includes the calculations and detailed plans
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AMANDX Dipole - The longwire antenna is a very effective antenna for the listener who wants to cover all of the shortwave bands from 530 KHZ to 30 MHZ.a
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An easy loop for VLF - An easy VLF loop, 200Hz-20kHz reception without transformers by Renato Romero and Marco Bruno
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Attic T2FD SWL antenna - Using the T2FD antenna for shortwave listening by AB1KW
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Attic T2FD SWL antenna - An indoor tilted terminated folded dipole (T2FD) for shortwave listeners
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Balun for HF wire antennas ^pop - Schema of a self made balun used to match randmon wire antennas, mainly for shortwave listening pourposes, in italian
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Beverage Antenna Information - The Beverage antenna was invented in the early 1920s by Dr. Harold H. Beverage
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Broadband receiving antenna matching ^updated - This article addresses the subject of obtaining the best signal transfer from an antenna to the typical 50-ohm receiver input over a wide frequency range, with emphasis on medium-wave (500 - 2000 kHz), encompassing the standard AM broadcast band and the 160-m amateur band.
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Build your first dipole - The dipole antenna is an easily designed and made antenna usually used on HF, although can be (and sometimes is) made for VHF and UHF antennas, and in varying forms is also used as part of different designs of antennas � i.e. as the driven element for directional antennas.
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Choosing wire for an antenna ^pop - One of the most asked questions when it comes to antennas is what kind of wire should I use
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Compact receiving loop antenna - A receiving loop antenna project suitable for 150-430 KHz reception by Gregg van der Sluys
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Curtain Antenna - An antenna for shortwave radio broadcasting consisting of rows and columns of dipoles, is a high gain directional antenna, designed for medium and long range communications.
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Dave's Loop Antennas - N2DS home made loop page
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Echelon-Log Beverages - About beverage antennas, Enhanced F/B Beverages, Bandwidth of Directivity, arrays
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Ferrite antenna for LF - A ferrite antenna for Low Freqencies
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Ferrite Rod Antenna - Ferrite rod antenna or aerial, a form of RF antenna that is widely used in RFID and transistor radio applications.
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Grounding is key to good reception ^pop - Guidelines to groundings.
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Harmonically Related Antenna - The HarRe antenna series, multi element quarter wave resonant broadcaters band receiving antenna
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HB9MTN Loop for BCL - Magnetic Loop antenna for broadcasts band reception
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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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Hula Loop Antenna - A Mediwum Wave DX Antenna made with two hula hoops by G4UCJ
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Inverted L antenna ^pop - The ever-popular inverted L antnna, a fast to implement and setup shortwave antenna project by Arnie Coro C02KK
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Long Loopstick Antenna - Wound on a 3 foot length of PVC pipe, the long loopstick antenna was an experiment to try to improve AM radio reception without using a long wire or ground.
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Longwire antenna basics ^pop - basic notes on building longwire antennas for medium waves
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Longwire Antenna Instructions ^pop - Instructions for Putting up a Long-Wire Antenna
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Low Noise Antenna Connection - Reducing noise to your antenna can gain your aerial performance, learn how.
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Magnetic Loop antenna ^pop - Why is an Magnetic Loop antenna so special, this antenna is picking only the magnetic part of the elektro magnetic radio wave. The big advantage of this antenna is that the electric interference from the big city have no influence on the received signal
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Mini Whip Antenna - An Active antenna designed for VLF and shortwave radio reception. A small antenna capable of excellent performances on low bands, made on a copper plate and introductio to active antennas.
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MW Loop Source Book - Buyers guide for new and second hand medium wave loops, how to choose the best loop antenna for your needs.
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Random wire antenna for shortwave listening - VA3STL experience on reorganizing his shack and setting up a new random lenght wire antenna for his Yaesu FRG-7 receiver
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Receiving Antenna Design - Learn basic theory on antennas, and notes on homebrewing efficient shortwave antennas
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Receiving antenna for low bands - K9AY loop antenna installed at PA6Z Contest group. This is a receiving antennas for the low bands (160m, 80m and 40m). Include schematics and info on a building the control box, preamplifier and low-pass filter
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Receiving loop aerial for 1.8 MHz - Bulding notes of a receiving loop antenna for 160 meters band
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Receiving loop for long waves - Cancelling out unwanted noise sources by DL3FP
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Rhombic Antenna for Shortwave Radio Broadcasting - Rhombic antenna for shortwave radio broadcasting, general description and radiation patterns
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Roofspace Antennas ^pop - How to build a roofspace antennas and get them to work. Explains how to build an effective antenna in your roof. Very interesting if you don't have possibilities to setup an antenna in your roof.
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Shielded-Loop Receiving Antenna - Schematics, mechanical drawings and picture of a Receiving loop antenna by N5ESE - N5FC
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Shortwave Antennas - Introduction to Shortwave Antennas. Understanding Shortwave Radio Listening and Antenna Design and Construction
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Slinky and loaded beverages - How slinky loaded beverage antennas works, includes eznec models
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Slinky antennas - Slinky Antenna Basics, clandestine dipole
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Small magnetic receiving loops - Article about magnetic loops, construction notes and diagrams
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Small Tuned Loop AM Broadcast Antenna - Alan yates vk2zay's ham radio website, homebrew construction, general electronics, high voltage experiments, amateur rocketry, and general geek stuff
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SWL Antenna Distribution System - a methodology for connecting multiple LF/MF/HF receivers to a single antenna via readily available and inexpensive 75-ohm TV cable.
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SWL home made antennas ^pop - Short guide to home made antennas for shortwave reception, in pdf format
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SWL Receiving Antenna Ideas - Shortwave radio receiving antenna experiments, on 30 and 40 meters band with pictures, schematics and descriptions.
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T2FD antenna - A T2FD antenna for 10-15-20 meters band
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T2FD, The Forgotten Antenna - The terminated. tilted, folded dipole T2FD is a little known antenna that performs excellently. Compact in size compared to a half�-wave dipole the T2FD provides signal gain, wide frequency coverage, and exceptionally low noise characteristics.
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The Small Loop Project - AM loop antenna for 75/80 meters band
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Umbrella Loop Antenna - Contruction notes of an Umbrella Loop antenna for AM shortwave listenings
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Understanding Shortwave Antennas - Basic of shortwave antennas
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Wire receiving loop antenna - A quick and easy to build loop antenna for shortwave listeining can tune from 5 to 18 Mhz
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