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What You Should Know About Lightning Protection by Joseph H. Reisert

This Magnetic Longwire Balun (MLB) makes it possible to efficiently use a coaxial lead-in cable with all forms of longwires, T-forms or other types of wire antennas, without the need for an antenna tuner.

Amateur radio shop based in germany, major supplier of wireless technology for ALINCO, Kenwood and ICOM.

The Homebase10 is a simple to make wire halo antenna for 10m (28MHz) built using parts available from the local DIY store.The resulting antenna is very effective on 10m despite its small size and light weight.

SDR Receiver a compact high performance HF software defined radio receiver designed to be used in fixed or portable stations. Version 2 of the receiver is now available. It now has an RF pre-amplifier using a power MOSFET and other revisions to improve it's performance both as a stand alone receiver and as an IF panadaptor with HF and VHF transceivers.

A circular waveguide calculator for designing cantennas include source code and windows executable by lincomatic

The idea of using a low mount dipole, enhanced with reflector wires directly beneath the dipole, on the ground, appears to be a very good approach to creating an NVI specific antenna for local HF operation.

An antenna system is more easily interfaced to a radio when the input reactance at the feedline terminals is low or close to series resonance

This page describes a simple way to determine the main RF characteristics of a Wifi (IEEE802.11b/g wireless LAN) antenna.

A compact Beam Antenna That Can Be Built At Home. Made with lightweight wooden "X" frame with two folded and linear loaded wire elements. The two elements are approximately a half-wave each.

Experiments with phased wire vertical antennas on 40 meters at VA7ST

Built around a 1/2" pvc frame, Larry's 6 meter moxon antenna is made from #8 aluminum ground wire

An updated version of the ZS6BKW multiband dipole

This is a simple calculator for solving the antenna wire catenary between to end points given the design wind speed, mass per unit length of the wire, wire diameter and Gross Breaking Strength of the wire.

Guy wire sloper antenna suitable for the 10m band

Popularity doesn't guarantee high antenna performance, disadvantages of trap antennas

How long should a wire antenna last? Wire antennas are not forever. Installation and quality are major factors in the useful life. Don't forget maintenance. You can avoid an untimely failure.

An analysis of the cebik dipole and other small limited space dipoles fed with open wire ladder line.

Summarizes a portion of the FCC rules 47 CFR 80.371(c) and 80.373(f)

Build yourself a postage stamp 40 meter wire dipole antenna that fits in a space a little over 20 wide and works reasonably well at low heights

Hombrewinf the hex beam antenna by W6OT

Hexagonal wire beams for all hf bands, technical resource, EZNEC files, tools for antenna modeling and documentation. You can also order parts to build your own antenna.

A quarter wave vertical end-fed antenna for the 40 meters band. As all vertical antennas, also this aerial requires a good earthing system. In this project the ground is composed by twelve 4, wires buried in the lawn by using a spade to create a slit to drop the wire into.

How Ham Radio Works, by Gary Brown, Ham radio can be very portable and affordable. In this article, we will look at ham radio and show you how to get started in this wireless world

A wire loop antenna around a bedroom wall

The concept of the "Hula Loop" came after many years of building medium wave loops of varying size, shape and performance. Usually these loops are constructed on a square wooden frame, with wire being wrapped around the periphery

3 Band vertical Marconi-antenna for the bands 40, 80, 160 meters with a ground net of wires as radials.

AEA Wireless Director Software Series turns PC's (running Windows 95/98/2000/ME or NT) into powerful tools that expand the use and power of SWR, Return Loss and Complex Impedance Analyzers.

A Double Zepp indoor antenna based on Cebik's reccomendations and design. Can cover HF bands, fed with 450 ohm open wire feeder terminating in an automatic antenna tuner, can perform incredible results.

30/17/12 and 20/15/10-Meter Tribanders and a 40 meters inverted V wire yagi antenna

Put up the longest dipole you can fit, feed it with open wire line, connect it to the balanced output of your tuner and poof! Instant multiband antenna. Is life really that simple?

Measurements that show it doesn't make much difference

D3+ High Performance Antennas for Field Day. This article describes versatile broadband wire antennas. These antennas will double your effective radiated power over a dipole, will be easy and inexpensive to build and install, and will be simple to match.

Antenna manufacturer from Poland, produce dipole wire antennas, W3DZZ FD4 Windom and long wires, baluns, dealer for toroids and connectors managed by Leszek Mlynarczyk SP1BKS

A wire yagi antenna model, easy to build, made using inverted vee elements and requiring just one support by ve3vn

An easy to build, compact antenna for wireless lan applications that offers a reasonable amount gain.

An easy to build single wire antenna for 160 and 80 meters with a better than 2 to 1 swr across the 80 meter band

The Upside-Down Umbrella Antenna by Don Keith N4KC

A ZS6BKW antenna experience and comparison over an OCF dipole by F4FHH

A project for a balcony antenna that works on 7 10 14 MHz made by 2 PVC tubes coiled with insulated copper wire, a solution for restricted lots.

This 1:49 transformer is used with wires any multiple of 1/2 wavelength. This is not a matching network, it's a wideband transformer and it has some advantages compared to LC matching

DAVIS RF Co. has been in the business of supplying the staples of wire antennas for over 30 years. DAVIS RF Co. supply all coax cables, all connectors, ladder line, rotar control cable, insulators, and we have the largest selection of wire for wire antennas. DAVIS RF Co. is the designer and trade mark holder, and primary source for Bury-Flex Tm low loss coax cable. PolyStealth Tm high strength PE insulated antenna wire, and Flex-Weave Tm wire

Fractal Antennas are a new generation of multiband antennas for wireless communications. Based on a new design concept, fractal technology.

Simple wire antennas like dipoles and verticals are dead easy to make: here's how

Data and telecom connectors, coaxial cables, smart card connectors and wireless cable products

True Ladder line and Wire antennas

Unique and Hard-to-Find accessories for Amateur Radio. Featuring Plasti Dip products, DK9SQ Masts, Wire Antennas, AEA Antenna Analyzers and RF Connectors too!

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

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

Putting up an antenna for the low bands? What kind of wire will you use? This analysis may change your plans.