Simple Ham Radio Antennas

If you're having trouble viewing this video, please insert this title link into your browser search box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPk45MVFpY. This is post #975 in a continuing series on simple ham radio antennas . Here's another great idea for an inexpensive, efficient, and easily made antenna suitable for either home or portable use. In this video, science writer Stan Gibilisco (W1GV) shows us how to design, build, and use an open-wire dipole antenna .  This antenna, designed for the lowest HF band of your choice, and fed with 450 ohm ladder line , 300 ohm television twin lead, or 600 ohm balanced feeders and attached to your transceiver via a balanced ATU or a balun/"tuner" combination will cover several HF amateur radio bands with only one antenna. This particular antenna uses 450 ohm ladder line to feed two equal horizontal antenna elements, each measuring 20 meters/65.6 feet.  Used with a suitable ATU, this antenna will cover all amateur radio ban...

/ If you're having trouble viewing this video, please insert this title link into your browser search box: https://youtu.be/WMPk45MVFpY.  In this video, Stan Gibilisco (W1GV) shows us how to design, build, and use one of the simplist, most efficient, and easy-to-make HF antennas for radio amateurs.  With the use of open-wire, ladder line, or television twin lead and a balanced antenna transmatch ("tuner"), you can use any amateur radio band between 80 meters and 10 meters without cumbersome traps, add-ons, or difficult tuning procedures.  If you don't have a balanced tuner, you can run the ladder line into a 4:1 balun, and connect the junction to your antenna transmatch with a short length of 50 ohm coaxial cable.  To cover 80 through 10 meters, each segment of the open-wire dipole antenna should be approximately 20 meters/65.6 feet long.  This antenna is often called a "doublet".  Get this antenna as high as possible for the best DX coverage.  If y...