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This article serves as a beginner-friendly guide to constructing a simple VHF dipole antenna for 2 meters, perfect for novices in the hobby. With an emphasis on affordability and simplicity, it explains the basics without overwhelming technical details. Recommendations for coaxial cable and mounting methods are provided, offering practical solutions for effective communication. By following these instructions, novices can build a functional antenna without breaking the bank.

A helically wound vertical antenna experiment. 14 meter of wire wounded on a 8 meter fishing pole with 4 elevated radials

4 Square K9AY Array project for 80 and 40 meters band

An easy to build and extremely high performance antenna, works perfectly on all HF bands 3.5-28 MHz with some compromises, it is basically an half wave dipole for 40-80 meters, an LC circuit or trap 40 meters allows you to use a single radiating element.

A simple drawing schematic of a portable field dipole for 14 MHz with dimensions in meters and instruction for setting up the antenna and to store the radial for easy transportation

This 6 meter 2 element yagi antenna is simple, compact and effective antenna for 50 Mhz. The design antenna was optimized with AO for best match to 50 ohms, no matching network. A choke balun is recommended to decouple feedline currents.

Article about an end-fed anntenna for the 17 and 12 WARC Bands. 30 meters is not included in this project. This antenna includes a 14 windings unun impedance transformer using a FT-140-43 ferrite toroid, that should be enought for a 100W PEP.

Setting up a ZZ Wave antenna, a dual band loop antenna covering 80 and 40 meters.

This web article details the construction of a 4-meter band coaxial dipole antenna, designed for operation between **70.000 MHz and 70.500 MHz**. The resource provides a bill of materials and step-by-step assembly instructions for a half-wave dipole constructed from _RG-58_ coaxial cable. The design specifies a direct 50 ohm feedpoint impedance, eliminating the need for an external matching network. Construction photographs illustrate the stripping and soldering processes for the coaxial cable elements, ensuring proper electrical connection and physical integrity. The article includes specific dimensions for the radiating elements, derived from calculations for the 70 MHz band. The project outlines the physical dimensions required for resonance at 70 MHz, with the outer braid forming one half and the inner conductor forming the other. The feedline connection is directly to the coaxial dipole's center, maintaining a 50 ohm characteristic impedance. While the article does not present SWR plots or VNA sweeps, it focuses on the mechanical construction and dimensional accuracy for achieving a functional 4-meter dipole. The design is intended for fixed station use, with no specific mention of polarization or height above ground, but implies a standard horizontal orientation for dipole operation. DXZone Focus: Web Article | 4m Coaxial Dipole | Construction Guide | 50 ohm Feed

This simple project, based on the orginal CobWebb-Antenna model, is about an horizontally polarized, omi-directional antenna for the six meter band.

A simple vertical whip antenna for 28 MHz with three radials made of 8 foot pieces of scrap wire and a 102 inch whip

A moxon antenna for the 50 MHz build with 19 feet of 14 AWG copper wire, and based on a set of PVC pipes. This is an easy to build project that will give you an efficient directional antenna on 6 meters band with low SWR on more than 1 MHz bandwidth.

YT1VP Yagi antenna for 6 meters

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A project for a vertical antenna for 60 to 20 meters by KV5R

Pictures, design plan and description of a 5 element yagi antenna for the 4 meters band by 9A7PJT

Aka Circular Waveguide Antenna. This online antenna calculator let you plan your cantenna for the desired frequency of operation, giving the Can diameter you have available.

The antenna in this project is a modification of the techniques used to design a multiband fan type dipole with little or no tuning involved having a total space of 105 feet

Inches and meters Javascript Wavelength Calculator allow to input a frequency in MHz and calculate wavelenght in several units considering also fractions of wavelenght and the velocity factor. Includes an usefull inch to meter converter

160 to 40 meters inverted L antennas projects

SJ2W Contest Station, antenna for the 160 meter is a 39m vertical. This 160m antenna consist of 29m of WIBE tower sections with an insulated base and 10m top tube.

A vertically-polarised VK2ABQ Antenna for six meter band

A Yagi-Mag antenna for the 4 meters band with NEC and MMANA files plans and pictures

Six meter band DJ9BV yagi antennas by YT1VP

A page dedicated to servicing and building a 10 meter band moxon Antenna

ATV products manufacturer, antennas, ATV transmitters, SWR meters, amplifiers

YU7EF 8 elements yagi antenna for 4 meters band

A home made 4 element yagi antenna that can be easily adapted for 10 meter band

The program consists of tabbed pages for various antenna and transmission line calculation. You can compute the values for an inverted L network that will allow you to match the 50 ohm output of the radio, or you can compute the necessary length in the units of choice for a 5/8 wave vertical for 10 meter band.

An home made doblet antenna made with two Slinkys that are aproximately five meters in length connected with a twin-feed connected to a balanced ATU

A monoband delta loop antenna for the 7 MHz. This vertically polarized DX Antenna is a full wavelength sngle side antenna and has a total length of 42.3 meters (137,1 inch) Can be easily setup with a flag pole or fishing pole as center top mast. For optimal performance lower side should be at 2 meter above the ground. This antenna offers a low radiation angle and 1 DB Gain.

How to improve your transmitting antennas for very low solar activity periods, vertically polarized 160 meter antennas, horizontally polarized 80 to 10 meter antennas, single or stacked yagis, multi-tower stations

Complete collection of the four main parts of this excellet research on modelling and designing half wave dipole antennas for 40 meters band, covering all aspects beginning from full wave length antennas, to shortened, loaded and reshaped dipoles

Extending The Bandwidth of 80 Meter Dipoles

Relevance of a proper ground systems on short HF vertical antennas, with an analysis on a vertical antenna for 160 meter band

This antenna is a vertical loop antenna mounted on a 8 meters high grounded mast with an input impedance of 50 Ohms without a matching device

A test with a superantenna MP-1 on a tripod operating HF bands on 40 20 and 17 meters band

If you like building good antennas, this one is for you. The J-pole is a slim, omnidirectional, half-wave antenna fed at the end through a quarter-wave shorted transmission line. Its predecessor is the famous Zepp antenna developed for the Zeppelin airship.

A great and efficient monoband VHF portable antenna. The article consist of two version of a 12.5 Ohm 3 elements yagi beam antenna plans for the two meter band, a full sized and a shortened version expecially designed for the SSB and CW on 144 MHz.

A quad turnstile consists of two cubical quad loops oriented in a diamond configuration and angled 90 degrees apart from one another with both diamonds sharing the same top and bottom points

A six meter band 3 element yagi beam antenna project with shortened elements using coax cables with the outer ends stripped and the center conductor shorted in somewhat of a Bazooka antenna.

An antenna for 80 meters band for those who does not have enough space to setup a halwave wire dipole that is aprox 130ft or 40 meters. The antenna is an open-wire-fed shortened dipole

A 2 elements yagi beam for 12 meters band with liear load

This article is about a home made project of a whip antenna for 2 meters band. Includes lenght of whip for all frequencies from 140 MHz to 151 MHz both in mm and inches

An inverted V Dipole antenna for HF bands, working on 10 20 40 and 80 meters band. PDF Presentation

Antenna manufacturing & design, antennas for limited spaces, Home of the rugged 160 Meter sloper antenna

HA8DU European manufacturer of quality amateur radio antenna tuners for HF Bands, from 10 meter to 160 meters band. Products includes manual and automatic antenna tuners, power handling till 3.5 KW. HA8DU produce even custom made variable capacitors and rotary switches.

A portable (15.5 foot diameter) NVIS loop for 3.5 to 7.3 MHz. Performs well at high and low takeoff angles, and has smaller footprint than most NVIS antennas.

Experimenting a 20 40 meter short coil loaded dipole antenna with the goal to keep the total length under 40 feet so that the dipole can be mounted on two 20 foot fiberglass pole to make a 20/40 meter rotatable dipole.

A dual band dipole antenna for 40 and 80 meters band. Total lenght of 26 meters, foreseen two coils at aprox 11 meters distance from center feed.