Antenna Homebrew

Design and build your own Hf thru Vhf antennas Contains pictures plans parts list of ...

Bill Orr W6SAI ham radio techniques Improving ground connection computer analysis of the antenna modelling ...

Splitting an antenna between two receivers or in use as the phasing harness in stacked ...

Find out how much to adjust the length of a quarter wave whip or a ...

Calculations for determining the wind loading stress on an antenna mast Link to a spreadsheet ...

Hints about Jpole Yagi and Quad antennas

This device goal is to optimize homebrew antenna for the V UHF band This tool ...

When experimenting on an antenna it s often important to determine its feedpoint impedance at ...

Homebrewing special insulators with PVC and copper corona rings

Galvanic corrosion a destructive process triggered by dissimilar metal contact in a corrosive electrolyte poses ...

Use this chart as an aid in trimming the length of your antenna It gives ...

Spider Beam antenna pictures in a youtube video

Various publications through the years have shown how the SWR measured on a shorted or ...

This page describes the design and construction materials W8WWV used to build a coaxial cable ...

This method of construction can be used on most UHF through low microwave Yagis and ...

Lots of information on fabricating CB antennas

A center antenna insulator with feedline strain relief

Why build antennas out of copper and not aluminum or stainless steel Selecting the best ...

Building an efficient antenna begins with selecting the right aluminum stock This article provides a ...

G3TXQ study on coaxial cable demonstrate that it can reduce an element s length by ...

Putting up an antenna for the low bands What kind of wire will you use ...

About foil conductors

Simple wire antennas like dipoles and verticals are dead easy to make here s how ...

Converting a little Radio Shack CB mobile magnet mount antenna to a VHF ham radio ...

The design and feeding of driven elements for VHF UHF Yagi antennas modeling observations and ...

A new and simple method for tuning traps You need 2 3Watt of your TRX ...

Ferrite Toroidal Cores Magnetic Properties of Ferrite Materials EMI RFI Suppression Design Considerations Ferrite Beads ...

This fixture id intended for fast assembly and disassembly of VHF antennas expecially usefull for ...

Make your own VHF UHF folded dipoles from aluminium tubing Learn tips for folding yagi ...

A collection of articles on the subject of impedance impedance matching and high frequency power ...

Ham radio wire antennas are the most common form of antenna used by ham radio ...

Notes on homebrewing antennas by Chris G4CYA from gamma matching to phasing antennas splitters and ...

Traps can be one way round multiband coverage without the need of an atu Learn ...

Cannot find the inductors you need for an antenna a tuner or amplifier Build your ...

Some techniques on homebrewing yagi antennas by VK5AJL

Article and video showing a technique to straighten Microbore copper pipe that is useful in ...

Safety tips and troubleshooting ideas by K2ZS

Installing your dipole end insulators a beginner guide to proper setup wires to insultaors ...

Determine the K-Factor used as a multiplier when constructing half-wave antennas.

Antenna designs that K5TR have collected from various sources.

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Here is an easy method to mount elements to a boom this can be realized ...

Article about omega and gamma matching related to bandwidth loss and component failures heating and ...

The construction principles for open-sleeve elements in antennas

This article presents a 160 meter variation of this family of antennas and more importantly ...

How to build a phasing harness for stacking antennas

A practical guide on hombrewing Yagi antennas including notes on Driven Element Transformation Symmetrising Coax ...

Collection of different techniques to homebrew PVC yagi antennas including elements assembling baluns and chokes ...

Are the lengths of antenna radials related to the height of a vertical By N6LF ...

Green that aluminum into something useful right in your own backyard by WB2CQM

An article by VE1VQ that illustrate how to home made a balanced feed line ...

Simple easy to built match developed in 1995 for Yagis with resistitive loads of 12 ...

An antenna construction workshop conducted at Marshall N1FN's QTH

An interesting article on traps, pros and cons of trapping by W4RNL

Tuning HF Coaxial Antenna Traps

Here is a way to ease assembly and balancing of a large antenna The elements ...

Using delta match with HF antennas design

Antenna modelling techniques and examples by W4RNL

How to make a Weatherproof Vertically Polarised Omnidirectional Aerial, The Slim Jim Antenna

Learn How - Winding your own RF Choke, Inductor Winding instructions

The Classic Numbers for All Types of Wire Antennas at HF Wire antennas need to ...

Sizes of wire as compared to their gauge American Wire Gauge by W8HDU

KA7OEI article on homebrewing Yagi UDA antennas with practical suggestions and designing notes.

Dragoslav Dobricic YU1AW antennex article on influence of Boom on frequency performance and how compensate ...

One of the most important considerations when designing and building a Yagi antenna is the ...