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A home made project for a 3 to 12 MHz signal generator

An home made HF mobile multiband antenna inspired by the KM4IE HF 20 dollars antenna or the Texas Bugcatcher can work 75 to 15 meters band with an acceptable SWR.

A home made field strength meter wit detailed pictures and schematic diagram by W4ZT

A home made project to reduce noises from lower bands, an X-Phase QRM Eliminator project that can help you a lot

Multi band Moxon Yagi Antenna for 10,15,20 meters band with just one feed line. Drawing and project with dimensions

Pictures and description of a homemade 1.3 GHz and 2.4 GHz RF Signal Source

A simple home made desk microphone project that can be fitted into a small plastic project box

A transceiver front-end protector in high signal level environments. An homemade RF limiter to protect your receiver front-end from high radio frequency.

Homemade moxon antenna for the 40 meter band. This article is not very descriptive but includes some very detailed images

An home made end fed half wave antenna with a tuner box by NG0R

an homemade ultra lightweight Morse code keyer paddle that can be used as a manual straight key

How to connect and key Power Amplifiers to Kenwood TS 590 or TS 990. How to home made custom Remote cable to key power amplifiers by JG1VGX

During a club's "Filetto Day" event, a comparative field test was conducted between a **Buddipole** antenna and a homemade 20/40-meter wire dipole. The author, IW5EDI, performed this personal evaluation from a mountain top at 1500 meters above sea level, utilizing a Yaesu FT-857D transceiver to switch between antennas. The observations on the 20-meter band indicated that the wire dipole consistently delivered significantly stronger signals compared to the Buddipole. Additionally, the Buddipole exhibited higher levels of **QRM** during the listening tests. The commercial Buddipole, known for its multiband capability and compact size with a self-supporting tripod, was contrasted with the simpler, larger wire dipole, which required a fiberglass fish pole for support. This direct comparison highlights practical differences in performance and deployment between a popular portable commercial antenna and a basic wire antenna in a real-world operating environment.

Magnetic Loop antenna for 20 to 80 meters band using home made butterfly condensator kit

An home made low pass filter for 70 MHz by IK0VAQ

A long picture gallery of a homebrew hexbeam antenna project

Home made wire dipole on a lenght of 30 meter 98.4 ft by PE1OPM

An home made transmitter for 40m CW

An home made FETer QRP transceiver for the 80 meters band

The Buddipole Deluxe, a portable HF/VHF antenna system, receives a practical assessment from IW5EDI after a month of field use. The author, constrained by antenna restrictions, highlights the system's crucial role in enabling portable operations, even managing sporadic digital activity from a balcony. Direct comparisons to a fixed 3-band dipole reveal surprisingly comparable signal reports on 15, 17, and 20 meters, underscoring the Buddipole's effectiveness in real-world scenarios. Tuning the Buddipole proves straightforward on bands down to 20 meters, though the review notes significant challenges with SWR on lower bands like 40 meters, where achieving better than 3:1 SWR was problematic. Observations also include SWR variations with dipole rotation and mast height, suggesting environmental factors play a role. The overall manufacturing quality of the antenna and its accessories, including the tripod and carry bag, is deemed good, despite a minor issue with a pole connector. Looking ahead, the author plans to construct a homemade Buddipole version, possibly optimized for the 30-meter band, specifically for PSK31 operations from an apartment. This personal project reflects a common amateur radio practice of adapting commercial designs for specific needs, further extending the utility of portable antenna concepts.

Home-Made Magnetic Loop Antenna for 30 Meters by WA8LMF

Homemade dipole antenna for portable use

A homemade GPS for TM-D710 using a Telit Jupiter JN3 GPS unit

Coil winding on 4 inch PVC tubing with home-made tooling.

The CSV19 is an homemade antenna launcher project. In this article you can find pictures, drawing, and material list

A homemade band pass filter for the 30 meter band based on the original VE7BPO design

A home made 50 MHz KW power amplifier project with picture and PCB schematic by W6PQL

An home made CW beacon transmitter project running 1.5 W on the 80 meters band

This circuit is very simple and has a fantastic range of potential uses.

A 50 MHz homemade RF spectrum analyzer

A homemade pneumatic projectile launcher project

A page describing how to home made a custom 9:1 balun for a common portable wire antenna. The author suggest to use 4C65 or FT140-61 toroids instead of the common Amidon T200-2

An article describing a homemade 40m wire OCF Dipole

This home made antenna provides around 10.5dBd gain on 70cm, and 6.5dBd gain on 2m, which is more than adequate to work the FM satellites with a handheld dual band radio

Pictures of home made antenna launchers

Pictures of a homemade monoband linear amplifier for 160m band powered by 3 x QB5/1750

A homemade 23 cm transverter project with several building steps and pictures

An attempt to make a capacitor out of kitchen foil and cling film

An homemade antenna tuner project that should be small, easy to build and cheap. This automatic antenna tuner can work as locale or as remote. The tuner has EEPROM memory for store settings for faster tunning and four interfaces

How to homemade antenna to be used with a handheld on the aircraft band to locate noise sources

An home made low noise preamplifier project for 144 MHz, with detailed circuit diagram. The VLNA-144 preamplifier has been Published on DUBUS 4 2019

A home made project for an ATV RF power amplifier

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

How to home made antenna traps with material you can easily find, and how to properly tune it.

My ham spirit, my publications and my home-made!

Homemade LC Bandpass Filters for 20M, 30M, 40M In multi-station environments like special events, field day, portable operating, is very important to protect receivers from excessively strong signals. Bandpass filters help to protect your transceivers.

Isotron antennas are antennas of reduced size, without tuning. On 40 and 80m band, it is made of two plates into v whose angles are connected by a coil. In this article the description of a home made realization for the 40m 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

An homemade HF, 6m, 2m SSB CW transceiver project by m0dgq

Full article on how to build a home-made wire dipole antenna for 40 and 80 meters band. Article is fully in italian, as it was published on ARI RadioRivista, but is plenty of self explaining pictures that will guide you on homebrewing this trapped dipole antenna for the lower amateur radio bands.