Difference between revisions of "HF Antennas"

Revision as of 05:20, 11 April 2006

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

Amateur 7 Element Yagi calculator
Antenna Basics
Antenna Terms and Build a Dipole Antenna - from the MT Website
Antennex Magazine - Very technical discussions,construction projects and reviews are presented here
Antentop - Partially in Russian
Boston Area DXers Antennas page - Construction plans for a low noise antenna, grounding and other topics
Build a Multiband SW antenna (from the Hamuniverse site)
Definition, History and Building a Random Length antenna - from the MT website
Feeding a Folded Dipole
Folded Dipoles
HFLink ALE Antennas (fan dipoles)
Joe Carr's Technical Notes - via DXing.com
Getting Started in SWL Listening Part III: Antennas, Accessories and Niche Listening
Hard Core DX Antennas Page - Technical Discussions, Plans, Hidden Antennas and more
The Carpet Loop -via Hard Core DX
The Terminated Tilted Folded Dipole (T2FD)
The Antenna Elmer
The Folded Dipole Antenna
W4RNL Antenna Notes
Wellbrook - How to install a Long Wire Balun

MFJ Antenna Talk series

Indexed Links

AMANDX Indexed Articles

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

Magnetic Longwire Baluns (MLBs)

Erickson Engineering
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
Review of the ICD 180 LMB (courtesy BADX website)
Strong Signals User Antenna Opinions
NOTE: Mixed Scanner and HF/MW Loop antennas mentioned here

Yahoo Groups

Shortwave SWL Antenna

Back to Antennas

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