Difference between revisions of "HF Antennas"

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No doubt about it, without a good antenna, no matter how good the receiver, you will not hear much of anything. These links should help even a newcomer feel comfortable about selecting and installing a HF antenna. There's several technical links for the experimenters in us, along with several commercial retailers. Warm up those soldering irons and get busy!

If you're a newcomer or old hat, or anywhere in between, when installing antennas, Safety First.
Make this link a must read. Don't become a statistic!

Commercial Retailers

Active Antennas

Other Manufacturers/Suppliers

MW (AM Band) Rejection Filters

Homebrew and Technical

Where to start?

What about indoors?

Technical and construction topics

Active Loops, Active Voltage Probe and Wire Antennas; A Statistical Review of the Performance of Six Antennas (Part 1) PDF File
A Waterproof Shielded Housing for Active Short Monopole Antennas (PDF)
Active Antennas KB6RWX
Amateur 7 Element Yagi calculator
An Active Ferrite Rod with Remote Tuning (PDF)
An Attic Coaxial Cable Trap Dipole for 10,15,20,30,40 and 80 Meters
Antenna Lessons from Old Timers (EHam article)
Antenna Street.com
Antennex Magazine - Very technical discussions,construction projects and reviews are presented here
Antentop - Partially in Russian
Balun-Designs.com
Bobtails and Half Squares
Complementary Push Pull Amplifiers for Active Antennas (PDF)
DIY Antenna Mounting Bracket
End Fed Half wave wire
Need a coax attachment to feed a fan dipole? Take a look at the Fan Dipole Attachment designed by chgomonitor
Feeding a Folded Dipole
Folded Dipoles
Grounding Bulkhead with supressors for your scanning station
- Although the above article mentions a scanning station, this applies to HF, too
Grounding is Key to Good Reception (Blog article)
HFLink ALE Antennas (fan dipoles)
Joe Carr's Technical Notes - via DXing.com
Hard Core DX Antennas Page - Technical Discussions, Plans, Hidden Antennas and more
Reinventing the tape dipole via eHam
Shortened Folded Dipoles via eHam
Six Band HF Center-Loaded Off Center Fed Dipole
The Terminated Tilted Folded Dipole (T2FD)
The Folded Dipole Antenna
The NB6Zep Antenna
Understanding Antennas for the Non-Technical Ham (PDF)
VE7SL -PA0RDT E Probe Antenna - Blog Notes
W5GI Mystery antenna

MFJ Antenna Talk series

Indexed Links

AMANDX Indexed Articles

AMANDX = Association of Manitoba DXers. Their home page is here

Magnetic Longwire Baluns (MLBs)

Reviews

Yahoo and other Groups

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 *[http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/sw_ant/2531.html Bonito Boni-Whip (via Universal Radio)]
 **[http://swling.com/blog/2017/04/the-bonito-boni-whip-goes-from-strength-to-strength-hardcore-dxing-in-compact-package/ Bonito Boni Whip review]
-* [http://www.cliftonlaboratories.com/z1501_active_antenna.htm Clifton Laboratories Z-1501]
 * [http://www.crosscountrywireless.net/active_antenna.html Cross Country Wireless HF Active Antenna]
 * [http://www.grahn-spezialantennen.de/index.html?fbclid=IwAR2NVfLyVdvMEQK5Ha87bb6ZHyxETwuGwoklFIh_Ai8i1gYNMBPa2QW7EDo  Grahn GS5 Active Antennas] (in German)