Difference between revisions of "HF Antennas"

Revision as of 07:49, 25 March 2007

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
Build a Multiband SW antenna (from the Hamuniverse site)
Definition, History and Building a Random Length antenna - from the MT website
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 is Key to Good Reception (Blog article)
HF Aerial for High Rise Dwellers via Southgatearc.org
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
Radio Station Grounding
- An excellent discussion on this important topic - make this a must read
The Carpet Loop -via Hard Core DX
The Terminated Tilted Folded Dipole (T2FD)
The Antenna Elmer
The Folded Dipole Antenna
W4RNL Antenna Notes

MFJ Antenna Talk series

Indexed Links

AMANDX Indexed Articles

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

Magnetic Longwire Baluns (MLBs)

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

Shortwave SWL Antenna

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 * [http://www.monitoringtimes.com/html/mtrevufeb05.pdf LF Engineering H-900 Gainprobe Antenna Review from MT (PDF)]
 * [http://www.monitoringtimes.com/html/mt2002reviews.html#MFJ-1020C%20Active%20Antenna MFJ1020C Active Antenna review from MT]
+* [http://www.wsplc.com/pages/pdf/miller.pdf Miller compact HF Antenna (PDF)]
 * [http://www.northcountryradio.com/Kitpages/actant.htm North Country Radio Active Antenna]
 ** [http://www.northcountryradio.com/Published/actant_0896/page1.htm Pop Electronics 1997 article on the North Country Active Antenna]
 * [http://sdr-1000.blogspot.com/2006/09/pa0rdt-mini-whip-more-information-and.html PA0RDT Mini Whip active antenna (article from SDR1000 Blog)]
+** [http://www.veron.nl/afd/voorne_putten/Lezing/pa0rdt/pa0rdt-Mini-WhipGeneralDescription%5B1%5D.pdf PA0RDT Mini Whip circuit description]
 ; Other Manufacturers/Suppliers
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 * [http://n-lemma.com/calcs/dipole/ Feeding a Folded Dipole]
 * [http://ac3l.com/fdipole.htm Folded Dipoles]
+* [http://www.iw5edi.com/ham-radio/5/grounding-is-key-to-good-reception Grounding is Key to Good Reception (Blog article)]
 * [http://www.southgatearc.org/articles/g4wyw/apartment/apartment.htm HF Aerial for High Rise Dwellers] via Southgatearc.org
 * [http://hflink.com/antenna/ HFLink ALE Antennas (fan dipoles)]