Ever wanted to install a shortwave receiving antenna FAST?!!! Then I am almost sure that you will want to learn more about the “Inverted L” antenna… About the easiest effective skywire to build … Just two supports… may be two masts, a mast and a tree, a mast and a nearby building… it need not
Putting your first ham radio station together can be an expensive proposition. One way to cut costs is to keep the antenna simple. Here’s how WB1FSB shaved the price and provided four band operation. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1os8GDj9Ydcp93W6r9TxBPJXp7zqPJOGu/preview
The G5RV is an easy-to-build 80-10 dipole requiring no traps. All bands are covered, including 30, 17, and 12. The G5RV has high SWR, by design, on most bands and a tuner is required. Unlike most dipoles, the “basic” design is not a 1/2 wave, but instead a 3/2 wave dipole on 20 meters. A
The basic antenna is a vertical monopole, using elevated radials to complete the “ground plane.” I use it only on the weekends, primarily for contests, thus it is designed to be raised and lowered with a minimum of fuss. It is a full-size 40 meter 1/4 wavelength vertical, with from four to eight tuned radials
The 75 meter dipole at K7ZB was put up to meet the need for making contacts with friends in the Southwest and Southern California. As usual, it had to be put up so no one can see it from the surrounding neighborhood. The objective was accomplished as shown below, which is the site drawing for
This is a simple dipole built for two-band operation that I made for portable use with my 20 and 40 meter QRP rigs. It was built to take along camping so I would only have to take & put up one antenna instead of two. The antenna consists of a regular 40 meter dipole using a
A 2 element beam antenna for 10 meters band Living in a condo has many advantages, none of which is being able to mount a tribander on a 60-foot tower. So I make do with a long, thin random wire that works nicely as long as the New England wind, snow and ice don’t conspire
After a Qth change last year, I was fortunate to get permission for an outside antenna. The new antenna was built with the following considerations in mind. At least 10 – 20m coverage Open wire feed to simplify matching the various impedances Loop design, because it is less sensitive to nearby objects and it requires
Original article published by G3YCC “This aerial is one I have used for top band (160 metres) – it was suggested to me by Alan G4ERZ, also of Hull. It consists of 140 feet of insulated wire, the first half of which (70 feet) is space wound on an insulated tube. I used glass fibre