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Revision as of 20:27, 12 December 2008
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!
Contents
Commercial Retailers
- Active Antennas
- Active SW Whip for Handhelds - MT review
- DX Engineering Active Receive antenna
- LF Engineering H-900 Gainprobe Antenna Review from MT (PDF)
- MFJ1020C Active Antenna review from MT
- North Country Radio Active Antenna
- Other Manufacturers/Suppliers
- Alpha Delta Communications
- Antennas and More
- Antenna Supermarket
- Barker and Williamson Amateur Products
- Buckmaster 7 Band OCF dipole
- BuxComm Home Page
- Cobra UltraLite
- Durham Radio (Canada)
- DWM 'Yo Yo'Antenna Review from MT (PDF)
- Grove SW/MW Antennas
- International Antenna Corporation
- Lowbander.com
- Look at the bottom of the page
- Miller compact HF Antenna (PDF)
- Miracle Antenna
- PAR EF-SWL antenna
- Performance HF
- Radiowavz
- RadioWorks catalog pages (PDF)
- RF Systems
- SGC Base Station Antennas
- SGC Portable, Mobile and Whip Antennas
- Spi-Ro Manufacturing
- Universal Radio
- Wellbrook Communications
MW (AM Band) Rejection Filters
- ICE BCB Filters
- Kiwa Broadcast Band Rejection Filter
- Kiwa Broadcast Band Filter for Longwires
- PAR BCST-HPF Filter
- Scanner Master Filters page
- Stridsberg Engineering Filters
Homebrew and Technical
- Where to start?
- Antenna Basics
- Antenna Terms and Build a Dipole Antenna - from the MT Website
- Build a Multiband SW antenna (from the Hamuniverse site)
- Definition, History and Building a Random Length antenna - from the MT website
- Getting Started in SWL Listening Part III: Antennas, Accessories and Niche Listening
- What about indoors?
- Attic Antennas --Always Surprise Me (John Schriener Jr. N2LK via EHam)
- HF Aerial for High Rise Dwellers via Southgatearc.org
- The Carpet Loop -via Hard Core DX
- The McGyver(tm) special
- Technical and construction topics
- Active Antennas KB6RWX
- Amateur 7 Element Yagi calculator
- 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
- 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
- Radio Station Grounding
- An excellent discussion on this important topic - make this a must read
- Reinventing the tape dipole via eHam
- Six Band HF Center-Loaded Off Center Fed Dipole
- The Terminated Tilted Folded Dipole (T2FD)
- The Folded Dipole Antenna
- The NB6Zep Antenna
- W5GI Mystery antenna
- The W5JCK Portable 80m/75m/SWL Helical Antenna Project
- MFJ Antenna Talk series
- Basic Collinear Arrays
- Franklin Collinear Arrays
- 3 Element Bobtain Curtain Array
- Thoughts on what to hang and where
- Ultimate Vertical Portable Antenna
- 1/2 Wavelength L Antenna
Indexed Links
- AC6V antenna links
- DX Zone Antennas Catalog
- The Antenna Elmer
- The N4UJW Antenna Projects Design Lab
- W4RNL Antenna Notes
- W8JI.Com Antennas Page
AMANDX Indexed Articles
- AMANDX = Association of Manitoba DXers. Their home page is here
Magnetic Longwire Baluns (MLBs)
- Erickson Engineering
- Feeding an End Fed Antenna
- Industrial Communications Engineers - ICE Model 180 LMB
- Longwire Impedance Matcher- via AMANDX
- Palomar MLB-1
- RF Systems Magnetic Longwire Balun (from the Universal website)
- Wellbrook Universal Magnetic Balun
- Winradio WR-LWA-0130 Long Wire Antenna Adapter
- The following articles are courtesy of Hard Core DX:
- Magnetic Longwire Balun - Not Really a Balun
- Magnetic Longwire Balun - A Con or Not?
Reviews
- DXing.Info Equipment Page
- EHam reviews of antennas (Wire,Verticals)
- Radio Database International sells a White Paper on Antennas
- Strong Signals User Antenna Opinions
- NOTE: Mixed Scanner and HF/MW Loop antennas mentioned here
Yahoo Groups
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