HF Antennas

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.
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Commercial Retailers

Active Antennas

• Bonito Boni-Whip (via Universal Radio)
  • Bonito Boni Whip review
• Cross Country Wireless HF Active Antenna
• Grahn GS5 Active Antennas (in German)
• North Country Radio Active Antenna
  • Pop Electronics 1997 article on the North Country Active Antenna

Other Manufacturers/Suppliers

• Alpha Delta Communications
• Balun-Designs.com
• Barker and Williamson
• Buckmaster 7 Band OCF dipole
• Cobra UltraLite
• Ham Radio Fun - Antennas
• International Antenna Corporation
• Lowbander.com
  • Look at the bottom of the page
• PAR EF-SWL antenna
• Radiowavz
• SGC Base Station Antennas
• SGC Portable, Mobile and Whip Antennas
• Universal Radio
  • Universal Radio SW/MW Antennas
  • Universal Radio Amateur Antennas

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
• Build a Multiband SW antenna (from the Hamuniverse site)

What about indoors?

• Attic Antennas --Always Surprise Me (John Schriener Jr. N2LK via EHam)
• The Carpet Loop -via Hard Core DX
• The McGyver(tm) special

Technical and construction topics

• 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)
• 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
• Magnetic Longwire Balun - Not really a Balun
• Magnetic Longwire Balun - A Con or Not?
• 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
• Understanding Antennas for the Non-Technical Ham (PDF)
• The Vactrol for MW and LW DXing
• VE7SL -PA0RDT E Probe Antenna - Blog Notes

MFJ Antenna Talk series

• Basic Collinear Arrays
• Franklin Collinear Arrays
• 3 Element Bobtain Curtain Array
• Thoughts on what to hang and where
• 1/2 Wavelength L Antenna

Indexed Links

• AC6V antenna links
• Basic HF Antennas
• Beverage Antenna Transformers
• DX Zone Antennas Catalog
• The Antenna Elmer
• The N4UJW Antenna Projects Design Lab
• W8JI.Com Antennas Page

AMANDX Indexed Articles

• AMANDX = Association of Manitoba DXers. Their home page is here
  • Anti Static Devices
  • Beverage Antennas
  • Choosing Wire for an Antenna
  • Dipole Antenna
  • Grounding System
  • Limited Space Antennas
  • Longwire Antennas
  • MFJ 1026 Modifications
  • Simple Antenna Switch
  • The Great White North Antenna

Reviews

• DXing.Info Equipment Page
• EHam reviews of antennas (Wire,Verticals)

Yahoo and other Groups

• End Fed Half Wave Antennas (Facebook)
• Shortwave SWL Antenna

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