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Quad antenna for 10 and 15 Meters - Building guide for a two element quad antenna planned for 28 and 21 Megahertz
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Antenna Transmatch Tips - Tips on tuning antennas using Antenna Tuning Units also called ATU. This article explains the functions and ills of tuners, along with some guide- lines for building an ATU.
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G5RV multi-band antenna construction guide ^pop - Excellent guide to build your own G5RV antenna by Lombry
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Hex Beam by K4KIO - This site provides guidelines to build a G3TXQ broad band hex beam RF antenna for the 5 ham radio bands, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10 meters. The G3TXQ hex beam is a new development and actually easier to build than the classic hexbeam.
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Installing dipole insulators - Installing your dipole end insulators, a beginner guide to proper setup wires to insultaors.
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J-Pole antenna design ^pop - Complete guide to build Jpole antennas with online dimensions calculator.
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SWL home made antennas ^pop - Short guide to home made antennas for shortwave reception, in pdf format
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Ground / Radial Systems - Guide to ground mounting antennas, notes on efficiency, elevated installations, metal towers and masts, other mounting schemas, moble homes and rv, lightning protections, artiche by Bencher
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Idiot's guide to antennas - A very basic guide to antennas concept. Explain the usage of dummy load, basic antennas like dipole o j-poles.
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Calculate antenna gain - Guide to calculate effective gain of antennas
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Groundplane antenna - Short guide to build your own groundplane antenna, includes radial measurements fro warc bands
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802.11b Homebrew WiFi Antenna Shootout ^pop - Guide to homebrew your wifi antenna, using a tin can, in this cases using a pringles can. This antennas are also known as cantenna and let you spread your wifi signal.
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How to build a tin can waveguide antenna ^pop - Looking for an inexpensive way to increase the range of your wireless network? A tin can waveguide antenna, or Cantenna, may be just the ticket. This design can be built for under $5 U.S. and reuses a food, juice, or other tin can.
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Slotted Waveguide 802.11b WLAN antennas - 802.11b WLAN Waveguide Antennas Unidirectional & Omnidirectional. High gain, Simple construction by Trevor Marshall
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DirectionalWaveguide - Seattle Wireless - Waveguide antenna is a type of DirectionalAntenna and is a modified waveguide. A waveguide is simply a tube, either rectangular or cylindrical in cross-section, that will carry a microwave radio signal with very low signal loss
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Building the WiFi parabolic antenna - Building a Bell ExpressVu satellite dish with a waveguide coffee can cantenna feed, and a Netgear USB Rangemax wifi card (WPN111).
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Handling GPS Antenna - Installation guidelines for static GPS Antennas
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Guide to scanning antennas - How to select an antenna for scanning. This is a Readers Digest version of antennas, meant to give new users some idea of the different antennas and their good and bad points.
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Getting Started in SW Listening - Excellent and exaustive guide to shortwave listening offered by monitoringtimes, includes operating guides, technical suggestions, buying guieds, antennas implementations and more, all what is needed by shortwave listening beginners.
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WASP-NET - Complex CAD and Optimization Software for Waveguide, Coax, Combline and Antenna components design and antenna modelling
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