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160m Band Loaded Inverted L Antenna - This is a simple 160 meters antenna, a short loaded inverted L. The linear lenght is 20 meters, with the loading coil at 5 meters from the feedpoint.
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160m Spitfire Antenna - Spitfire Collinear Arrays for 160 meters band at UA2FW
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20 Meter Rotatable Dipole Antenna - Construct a compact, 20 meter rotatable dipole antenna of durable weather worthy components supported at a single point obviating the need for multiple supports and multiple support ropes crossing the yard.
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Ham radio 40-meter dipole: your first antenna - How to home made a custom home made dipole antenna for the 40 meters band, just 66 feet long. Enjoy the band openings during the evening and play morse code or digital modes on this magic band.
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40m 2 elements HQ Traps Yagi - The longest element has a total length of 14m and has a boom length of 5.5 meters featuring a total bandwith of 166 kHz
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Six meter dipole project - Design and build an 6 m dipole antenna from aluminum, tubing, that resembles the active element of a yagi beam antenna.
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Six Meter Antennas Reviewed - In this article the author describes his personal experience on some antennas for 50 MHz he tested on the field, the six meter Dipole, Vertical, Moxon, a 3 element Yagi and an Omniangle antenna.
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Short vertical for 6 meters - A 30 cm antenna for the six meters band in japanese
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6 Meter Homemade J-Pole Antenna - A homemade j-pole antenna for six meters band, designed to work on local repeaters, and working on the 52-53 MHz. Includes a list of needed materials and detailed description on assembling the copper tubes used to build this antenna.
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6 Elements Yagi Antenna on 50 MHz - This is a design based on the QuickYagi 4 software by WA7RAI with some changes for practical reasons. The beam uses 6.5 metres of standard 25mm square boom, 12mm diameter elements without tapers. The actual boom length used is 6.3 metres and all parts are readily available.
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Homebrewing a 6 Meter Yagi - Six meters is a great band for home built Yagis. The elements are reasonably small, but not so small that building tolerances are critical. With careful construction and detailed instructions, it is certainly feasible to build no-tune Yagis up to 432 MHz.
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Magnetic Loop HF antenna - An homebrew HF Magnetic loop made with 2m length of 6mm diameter copper pipe formed into a near circle as the low loss inductor, a short length of coax as a capacitor,a short length of mains cable, again as a fixed tuned capacitor, a tunable 365pF air spaced capacitor, and a small Jackson C804 airspaced variable with a small 3-35pF trimmer in parallel
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40M Delta Flag - A delta loop receiving antenna for the 40 meters band
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160 Meters 4 Square Receive Antenna - A four square array receiving antena for the top band, performance is extremely directional and space requirements are really hard to fulfill.
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Half Sloper Multiband Antenna - A presentation of a HF multi-band sloper antenna. This antenna project is for low band operations, and antenna presented in this article works on 40 80 and 160 meters band. Article is in Polish.
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IAT Interactive Antenna Table - IAT is an excel sheet table evaluate parameters of VHF UHF antennas edited by Vladimir UR5EAZ. The difference between this tool and the existing VE7BQH Antenna Table is the use of G / T and C / N instead of the G / Ta parameter. In this table, Vladimir applies the ITU recommendations to assess the noise properties of a radio receiving system and shows the advantage of the G / T concept over the G / Ta concept when choosing an antenna.
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5 Band Pipe Vertical Antenna - A simple, cheap and easy to build 26 feet long vertical antenna that works DX on 20 - 10 meters including WARC Bands, it is designed for portability for field days, camping, or permanent installation, cost, and to achieve at least 1/2 wavelength on the WARC bands.
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Guide to 6 Meter DXing - Getting Started on the Magic Band is a very exaustive article about operating the six meters band. It covers several aspects of operations, techniques, tips and guidelines on getting started on the six meters band.
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Thunderstorms Causing Sporadic E - A Case For Thunderstorms Causing Sporadic E on 6 Meters. In Propagation and Radio Science, Eric Nichols explains one possible mechanism is thunderstorms that are strong enough to break electrons free forming a cloud of free electrons.
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IC-7300 Quick Start Guide - PDF document for IC-7300 beginners. The ICOM IC-7300 is an HF + 6 meter, multi-mode, self-contained Software Defined Radio (SDR) transceiver with knobs, buttons and a touch screen. It also has a real-time spectrum display with pan adapter and water fall displays.
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