Simple Ham Radio Antennas

  Many radio amateurs use indoor and stealth antennas to protect their stations from inclement weather or to avoid deed-restrictions common to HOAs and CC&Rs. In this video, Dave Casler (KE0OG) explores several useful HF indoor antennas, including the rollup dipole and the classic J-Pole antennas. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxq1xhu4mLI. Here are a few comments from Dave: Peirre, KM4WSJ, lives in Florida and is often victim to powerful lightning and thunder storms and is forced to disconnect his antenna. His question to Dave, Can you recommend a homebrew antenna that I could use indoors and could switch from the outdoor to the indoor during thunderstorms? Subscribe:     / davecasler   . Ask Dave Playlist: https://goo.gl/inaQeB . Tip Jar: http://ke0og.net/tip-jar Edited by Callum Jakeman To learn more about me, visit: http://www.dcasler.com/abou...

Here's another excellent tutorial from "QST" columnist David Casler (KE0OG). In this video, David answers a viewer's question about indoor antennas.  David does an excellent job of explaining the theories behind and construction practices used in making indoor antennas. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxq1xhu4mLI Here are some comments from David (KE0OG): Peirre, KM4WSJ, lives in Florida and is often victim to powerful lightning and thunder storms and is forced to disconnect his antenna. His question to Dave, Can you recommend a homebrew antenna that I could use indoors and could switch from the outdoor to the indoor during thunderstorms? Subscribe:     / davecasler   . Ask Dave Playlist: https://goo.gl/inaQeB . Tip Jar: http://ke0og.net/tip-jar Edited by Callum Jakeman To learn more about me, visit: http://www.dcasler.com/about/ Tip jar (on my website): h...