Quickie Vertical Hear I am sitting in front of the rig listening to everyone working CQ World Wide, and I don’t really have time for this, but I hear a few interesting stations on 20 meters and try to call them. Trying to bust the pile up with 100 watts and my hustler dipole is…
Author: Simone
Born in 1970 currently live in Florence Italy.
Married with 2 childrens work as IT Technician.
About Loop Antennas
Loop Antennas The Principles of the Loop Antenna article was in a newsletter of the MDXC. The next three were from a talk that Mike Bates and James Dale gave to the Northland Antique Radio Club’s Radio Workshop at the Pavek Museum of Broadcasting.
2.4 GHz Cubical Quad Antenna
Cubical Quad Antenna Project for 2.4 GHz
My LoTW Certificate expired – It did it again!
How to renew an expired LoTW callsign certificate and let RumLog sign and upload to Log of the World for you.
Antenna Basics : Directional Antennas
Directional Antennas An antenna is known as “directional” if its pattern strongly favors a certain direction. A directional works by concentrating the signal in one direction at the expense of other directions. It is also commonly referred to as the “Beam” antenna. I am going to start with the earliest type of beam discovered, the…
Mobile Antennas
Mobile Antennas This is an area of hot competition among antenna manufactures. I am not going to cover how to mount your mobile antenna (Radio Shack sells everything you need to mount antennas), but the basic mobile antenna designs that most mobile antennas manufactures are using today. If you have just started reading my page…
4 Element Yagi Building
4 Element Yagi Building This article contains discussion of all the different antenna principles previously described elsewhere on this website. A thorough reading and understanding of the other sections are necessary to comprehend all the terms used on this page. It is not necessary to understand all the terms and theories described to build…
Building a 4 Element Cubical Quad
Building a 4 Element Cubical Quad There are many reasons you should considering building your own antenna. First you can taylor it to the needs of your communication (local or DX and optimize it for the frequency you talk on) and to the needs of your environment (make it strong if you live in a…
Performance Tips – Earth Ground
Earth Ground Most of us overlook the importance of hooking good earth grounds to our antennas and our radios. Some think if lightning hits, its going to do what it wants to do. Probably right! Lightning protection is not why I am stressing the earth ground. Good earth grounds serve two purposes. One they protect…
Antenna Performance : Angle of Radiation
Angle of Radiation Most of us think that our antenna’s “shoot” the signal straight off the end (if its a beam), at right angles from the antenna. I have even seen some operators (mainly ones who live in valleys) bend their mast so that their antenna does not sit with the boom parallel to the ground…