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K2YWE's Compact 160m Lazy-U Antenna - This compact 160m antenna is a half-wave dipole with a vertical section. It requires no radials and has worked well for me.
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Helically wound antenna for 40m - A helically wound vertical antenna experiment. 14 meter of wire wounded on a 8 meter fishing pole with 4 elevated radials
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Vertical Antenna For 40- 80-160 Meters - The basic antenna is a vertical monopole, using elevated radials to complete the ground plane by k5oe
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High Performance 40 Meters Vertical - 40 meter vertical antenna construction, a shortened easy-to-build vertical, with no-radials, made from surplus military camouflage poles
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A very efficient half size 40 meter Vertical Antenna - A vertical antenna project for the 7MHz made with some spare parts. Based on a broken 20 foot fishing pole, it is based on a good ground system made with radials and a capacitive hat done to increase the global radiation resistance of the antenna. A custom loading coil is also included in this project to perfectly tune the antenna to the CW portion of the 40 meters band.
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Umbrella Antenna for 80 Meters - An umbrella antenna is basically just a vertical monopole antenna that is top-loaded with a large end-hat. The hat consists of a number of radial wires that slope away, downward from the top of the antenna.
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Bent Dipoles reference website - Antenna modeling discussions about What happens if... a dipole is bent horizontally, laterally, vertically. Zig-zag, meander, catenary curve. Effect of sag, elevation, radials. OCF off-center feed, harmonics. Includes 4NEC2 antenna models for each study.
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Multi-Band End-Fed Antenna Design for Limited Space ^new - This document details the construction of a multi-band end-fed antenna, suitable for situations with limited space for larger antennas. The design utilizes a 1:49 to 1:60 impedance transformer to match a half-wave wire antenna fed at one end. Compared to a traditional dipole, this antenna resembles a highly unbalanced Windom antenna with one very long leg and a virtual short leg. The design eliminates the need for radials but relies on the coax cable shield for grounding. The document recommends using at least 10 meters of coax and installing a common mode filter at the entry point to the shack for improved performance.
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J-Pole theory ^pop - 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.
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ZR6KMD 20m Field Dipole - A simple drawing schematic of a portable field dipole for 14 MHz with dimensions in meters and instruction for setting up the antenna and to store the radial for easy transportation
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Field Day Inverted L - Inverted L antenna, even if not completely freestanding, it only requires one line to be lauched into a tree to support the end of the horizontal wire. This project is done with a 31-foot Jackite pole for a support and uses six 15-foot radials and one 33-foot radial.
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Challenger DX Antenna Review by NK7Z - A review of the GAP Challenger DX Antenna that is not a traditional 1/4 wave vertical, but is a vertical dipole, this gives it several advantages over a standard 1/4 wave vertical, mainly the reduced number of radials, with excellent performances.
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