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Able to cover all frequencies between 3.5 and about 10 MHz, the loop described here is directional, does not require a radial system, and stands just 1.8 metres tall. The antenna can be put together in a short time and is cheap by Peter Parker VK3YE ex VK1PK

Cheap Yagi Antennas for VHF/UHF

The page provides guidance on building a mobile antenna for HF bands using a cheap CB-mobile whip antenna base. It discusses the importance of high efficiency antenna systems with a slim profile for low wind resistance, along with physical constraints and design considerations. The author shares instructions, tips on mounting the antenna, grounding, and band switching. The page includes a graphic illustrating the antenna's principle of operation and a table with reference lengths for different bands.

The antenna is nothing more than a simple 2.4 metre square loop drawing pinned to the internal brick wall of the spare bedroom. Yep, thats right, the inside wall of the spare bedroom - ideal for flat dwellers, hotel rooms or whinging neighbours, The loop has a simple switched inductance at the top of the square loop and uses a simple coaxial stub to tune the antenna. An additional variable capacitor placed across the feedpoint can be used to fine tune the resonance of the antenna, by Andy G0FTD

SkySpy is a cheap Windows 95/98 software program combining a decoder and a database in order to decode ACARS transmissions, the digital data link between commercial aircraft and ground stations, demod ACARS FAX METEO POCSAG HAM. Software is no more supported and developed.

Need a general purpose antenna on the magic band? The J-Pole is an easy-to-build and inexpensive device that provides an omni-directional vertically polarised antenna without the need for a ground plane. In technical terms, it is an end fed vertical 1/2 wave which is fed via a 1/4 wave matching stub.

The J-Pole antenna is an omnidirectional antenna that can be used for base, mobile and field day stations. It does not need a ground plane, radials or a complicated matching system. The J-Pole can be cheaply, simply and quickly constructed using a variety of techniques, some of which are discussed in this article.

Simple wire antenna cheap to make, using readily available materials, Low angle radiation, with rejection of high angle signals Wide bandwidth, with resonance at the 80M DX window (3.790-3.800 MHz); and Maximum height is 40 feet

Smart homebrew antenna-ELEVATOR system with linear actuator. The actuator is a cheap and heavy tool with high enough torque, ideal for elevation systems, but in practice it needs quite an effort in order to operate correctly in your homebrew antenna system. This page inform you of the actuator's secrets.

A simple and cheap dualband j-pole antenna for 144 and 430 MHz

py2ohh homebrewing of receivers, transmiters and Test Equipment for ham and swl, using cheap, easy to find or surplus components

This article describes a 10 watt linear amplifier that is capable of delivering over 15 watts into 50 ohms and uses cheap plastic transistors that are used in CB equipment. by Harry Lythall - SM0VPO

Simple and cheap antenna for 40/80 meter band in Italian

Homebrew a j-pole 2mt and 70 cm antenna project. Make it cheap. This article includes homebrewing instructions, parts lists, tools needed and printable documentation.

An inexpensive coax switch. shows a proven inexpensive home-made antenna selection switch. If you question the use of a cheap slide switch and SO239 coax sockets, read on. Measurements in a physics lab showed there to be practically no reflection on HF and even on 70 cm the SWR was below 1.3 : 1

The PringlesCantenna is an ultracheap Yagi-type directional antenna that can be built for under $10. The original Pringles Yagi was designed by Andrew Clap.

This project is about a cheap way of building a colinear antenna for VHF 145MHz, and having about 10dB more gain than that little 1/4-wave magmount

NC4JB Josh explain in this article how to setup a simple and cheap indoor dipole antenna that can be used on almost all HF bands

Here's an antenna that you can take with you. This is made from cheap flat 300 ohm TV antenna wire.

An cheap homemade azimuth and elevation rotation system using an Arduino/AVR.

Gi7b is tube designed for microwaves but working good as HF amplifier. Idea is to build cheap, reliable HF amplifier covering 160 meters band.

5 Band 1/4 wave Telescopic Antenna. The 20m to 10m, antenna is simple and cheap to make, and has a performance that matches commercial antennas but at cost considerably lower. The design was purposely based on a telescoping fibre glass fishing rod as this allows it to be easily stowed away in the car.

This little antenna is cheap and easy to build, lightweight, and very functional on 2 meters and 70 centimeters by NA4IT

There are lots of good designs for matching transformers for receiving antennas. Make it yourself it's cheap and easy, and very high performance. This is the design used in the TRX-9 transformers.

An halo stack antenna for 70 cm by KR1ST

Cheap AFSK TNC, APRS for everyone with arduino, BeRTOS and a STM32F100 chip by OM5AMX

The RTL-SDR software by Osmocom, allow DVB-T dongles based on the Realtek RTL2832U to be used as a cheap SDR.

Build your own home made Antenna Analyzer with an arduino micro, or a cheeper one with a pic processor

A simple, cheap, efficient tv antenna that you can make yourself.

A low-level voltage meter and could even be used for audio purposes.

A portable VHF home-made Yagi-Uda antenna, that is extremely easy to build and very cheap. Moreover this antenna, while dismounted is just 1 meter long, and the total weight is just 100 grams.

Build this simple and cheap 70 MHz Exciter and start to transmit Digital Television by Jean-Francois Fourcadier

Need a variable power supply that is short circuit protected and over voltage protected; Here is a good one that can be built cheap by VE3IVJ

Functional, easy, and cheap, all good Ham Radio characteristics by Terry Fletcher, WA0ITP

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

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

This is the report of a MFJ-259B analysis of two 100 ohm / 5 watts resistors in parallel partially in italian

A VHF power amplifier made with two cheap RF transistors, 2N3924 as driver and a BFS22A for final stage, giving an unexpected output power of 7-8 watts maximum

An easy mod to make the 1st IF of the Icom IC-7600 accessible and connect to a cheap RTL SDR dongle by VE4NSA

How to cheaply track ships using AIS and a cheap $20 software radio.

Cheap Antennas for the AMSAT LEO Kent Britain WA5VJB

A simple RF power amplifier initially designed for 40 meter band can work on 10 15 20 40 80 meters

This 4m Slim Jim Antenna is cheap and easy to build yet it greatly out performs the more usual dipole due to its low angle of radiation. An SWR of 1:1 is obtainable across the 4m ham radio FM band with a simple adjustment.

This Spectrum Analyzer supposes to be a cheap and a useful device for any ham radio by Iulian Rosu, YO3DAC / VA3IUL

This is an incredibly simple and cheap frequency counter with binary readout, based on the ideas of Onno PA2OHH.

RTL-SDR is a very cheap software defined radio that uses a DVB-T TV tuner dongle based on the RTL2832U chipset. This is a blog about rtl-sdr, software defined radio and their developments and applications.

Cheap UHF antenna plans for 2 meters and up including 421 1296 and 902 Mhz

An easy to make, cheap, no trap, multiband wire vertical antenna by PA1M

Build this cheap and easy satellite downlink antenna

Optimization tests of the W3EDP multi-band HF wire antenna a popular aerial among QRP enthusiasts because it is light weight and cheap.