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Antenna adaprter mods fot the Kenwood TH-F6A or TH-F7

A basic drawing of a 2 meter quad antenna for 144 MHz

A homemade remote antenna switch made with an Arduino Uno by KK7S

The "Tiny 2" is a great little 2 meter beam. It has some really interesting properties and it is a fantastic first time antenna project for the beginner.

Over **10 million** antennas and flags have been sold worldwide by Firestik Antenna Company, a veteran-owned manufacturer specializing in both CB and amateur radio communication products. Their offerings include a range of antennas, mounting accessories, and coaxial cables, designed for various mobile and fixed applications. The company provides technical support and maintains a network of dealers for product availability. Firestik products are known for their fiberglass construction, which is evident in their _Firestik_ and _Firefly_ antenna lines. The company also produces unique items like the "342 mile per hour Firestik flag," highlighting their diverse manufacturing capabilities beyond just radio antennas. They emphasize their commitment to quality and customer service, including direct technical assistance. The company is located in Tempe, Arizona, and operates under the registered trademark of _Pal International Corporation_. They actively protect their brand, including variations like Firestick and Firestix, ensuring proper representation of their products in the market.

An introduction to antennad including a DIY assembly instruction for a A Ground Plane Antenna for NOAA Weather Stations

Dual band vhf uhf dipole antenna by DL7JV

Low Noise Antenna pre-amp for SAT, EME & DX-ing

The SQUARE-Pole is a 1/2-wave dipole that has been bent into a square by WB2VUO

A 40-meter antenna that provides good local and regional coverage during the day and good DX capability at night

A multiband wire antenna with a twinlead feedline that can be easily tuned in several bands, witha 33 ft per leg you can have a 40 to 10 meters band coverage

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.

Article about the z-match antenna tuner

Land communications and marine antennas

J-pole antenna made easy using a twinlead by W4ZT

An homebrew crossed Yagi antenna for two meters band based on DK72B design with pictures, detailed description and tricks by Barry Zarucki M0DGQ

Different band dipoles can be put together with a single feed, learn how by W8HDU

This is a 200 Watt PEP step up transformer for end fed full and half wave antennas without radials, designed as a 200 Watt PEP

Helical antennas invented by John Kraus give a circular polarized wave. They are one of the easiest to design. Find a tube with a circumference equal to one wavelength, and wrap wire in a helix spaced a quarter wavelengt

Definition of antenna gain at wikipedia

The Crossed Field Antenna (CFA) is one of the applications of Correction of Maxwell's Equations which was used over 150 years ago which was proved these days that the Magnetic Field Source is only the Displacement Current not the Conduction Current . These Corrections was made by an Egyptian Doctor Engineer Fathi Kabbary , who reached the New Correct Theory which shows that the height and efficiency of the antenna doesn't depend on the wavelength

The antenna is an inexpensive, multiband, end fed HF antenna. It has a matching network consisting of a toroid core and an antenna lead of 30

Build an HF antenna tuner by VK5AJL

Operating a ZS6BKW antenna often involves understanding its lineage from the _G5RV_ design, with specific modifications by ZS6BKW to optimize performance on several bands. Through computational analysis and field measurements, the antenna's dimensions were refined to allow operation on 10, 12, 17, 20, and 40 meters without an antenna tuner. For 80, 30, and 15 meters, a tuner is necessary, though efficiency on 30 and 15 meters is noted as not particularly high. The physical configuration consists of two 13.755-meter radiating elements fed by a 12.20-meter section of 450-ohm ladder line. Tuning the antenna on the 20-meter band is critical, and any deviation in the ladder line's characteristic impedance necessitates recalculating the element lengths. The design is also referenced in the 12th edition of _Rothammel's Antennenbuch_, page 219. Proper common mode current suppression is crucial at the transition from ladder line to coaxial cable. This can be achieved with a common mode choke, such as several turns of coax wound into a coil or over a ferrite toroid like an Amidon T130. While a 1:1 balun is an option, it may introduce issues.

A vertical antenna specifically designed to work with the 80 meter CW beacon keyer

A vertical dipole for 10, 15, 20 and 40 meters made adapting two Hustler Model 6-BTV antennas by w6sdo

A six meter Moxon rectangle antenna. Includes high definition pictures and a detailed drawing by KG4JJH

Yet another G5RV antenna plan to build a G5RV Antenna for 80 to 10 meters usage

This project will enable you to build a monoband long wire inverted vee with 3/4 wave length sides that will have a bit of gain

318 and 200 ft insulated towers

A 90-foot vertical antenna constructed from **aluminum irrigation tubing** is detailed, focusing on its innovative raising and lowering mechanism. The resource describes a **45-foot ginpole** system, allowing a single operator to erect or lower the antenna in minutes. It covers the mechanical design, including the pivot base, insulated joints for the tubing sections, and guy wire attachment points. The antenna consists of two 30-foot sections of 4-inch tubing and one 30-foot section of 2-inch tubing, stacked with the smaller diameter at the top. The electrical design incorporates PVC "condulet" boxes at the 30-foot and 60-foot points, housing relays to change the effective height for multi-band operation on 160, 80, 40, and 30 meters. Ferrite rod inductive chokes are used for DC control and to tune out gap capacitance. The antenna is fed with 1000 feet of open wire line, connected to a matching transformer comprising stacked toroids and a coaxial/toroidal balun. Grounding is achieved with a 3x3 foot grid of 16-gauge tinned copper wires with soldered crossovers.

Outbacker mobile and portable antenna systems are slim line, highly efficient, single whip multi bond antennas for vehicular and limited space portable applications.

Dutch Antenna and Tower Manufacturers from Slimline Square Triangular Round Towers. Antennas production include Yagi Monoband/Dipole/HF Quad /50MHz and 70MHz Yagi-Quad, VHF-UHF yagi-Quad and Comby antennas VHF/UHF/SHF

It consists of a radiating wire with a length equal to the half-wave of the fundamental frequency for which the antenna is cut.

Cheap and EZ to build Bi-Directional VHF & HF antennas with gain

This design was adapted from an article in the ARRL Handbook and built with simplicity and duplicity in mind. This antenna is a vast improvement over a standard dipole with a forward gain of around 8db with a front to back ratio of 10db.

A marriage of the windom and slinky antennasm, article by NC4TC

A folded wire antenna for 160 meters as appeared on 73 amateur radio magazine june 1997

An cheap, easy to construct and not too visible antenna for the low bands

A compact multiband wire antenna suitable for portable operations.

An interesting arduino project to work as an antenna tuner

A copper pipe Hentenna for 144 MHz. The Hentenna, a compact, high-gain loop antenna developed in Japan in the 1970s, offers approximately 5.1 dBd gain, comparable to a three-element Yagi. Adapted for 2 meters, it is crafted from copper pipe for simplicity, affordability, and broadband performance. Requiring no feed-point tuning, its construction involves soldering standard copper fittings. Installation demands non-conductive materials to minimize signal disruption. Versatile for vertical or horizontal polarization, it is ideal for FM, repeater, SSB, or CW applications. This design emphasizes practicality and performance for amateur radio enthusiasts

DK7ZB 9 element antenna

A wip antenna for 6 meters band by JA1HWO

CB Radio, and 10 meters antennas manufacturer

An invisible magnetic loop antenna mounted under a table by PY1AHD

Build your own multi-band mobile ham antenna with a Hamstick

A QRP 900 grams hydraulic tuned small magnetic loop antenna by PY1AHD Alex.

Presents a detailed construction guide for a **Quadrifilar Helix Antenna** (QHA) optimized for 137 MHz, specifically for receiving weather satellite transmissions. The resource outlines the author's experience building previous QHA designs, highlighting challenges with tuning and nulls, and then focuses on a refined design by John Boyer, documented by Steve Blackmore, which proved easier to build and yielded superior reception. The guide provides precise element dimensions, including 1.5m of 32mm PVC pipe for the mast and 8mm soft copper tubing for the helix elements. It specifies lengths for horizontal tubes (190mm, 90mm) and helix elements (903mm, 1002mm), along with instructions for drilling, assembly, and forming a **balun** by wrapping RG58 coax around the mast. The text emphasizes critical steps like ensuring elements are square and twisting in the correct direction to avoid phase issues. It includes references to original QST articles by Buck Ruperto (W3KH) and the WxSat program for decoding satellite transmissions, contextualizing the antenna's purpose. The article concludes with a sample NOAA 12 image from September 1998, demonstrating the antenna's reception capabilities.

A magnetic loop made just of wire. Suitable for portable usage and for QRP operations.