Simple Ham Radio Antennas

Short Top Band Antenna (http://www.dxzone.com/cgi-bin/dir/jump2.cgi?ID=32392). Accessed on 17 December 2016, 23:25 hrs, UTC , Post #984. Author:  DJ0IP Please click link or enter the title URL into your browser to read the complete article. Comment: One of the significant drawbacks of antennas designed for the 160 meter band is the large size of the antennas involved.  A full-length dipole cut for "Top Band" can measure as much as 265-feet/80.79 meters from end-to-end. Not many of us have access to such large dimensions on a typical urban lot. Compromise 160 meter band antennas can be used, including vertical helixes, magnetic loops, and coil-loaded shortened dipoles.  The efficiency of such antennas is usually low. In this post, DJ0IP uses a design from Alfred Kluess (DF2BC) to make a very short dipole fed by two types of balanced line which is then attached to a homemade split-stator capacitor and heavy duty coil.  This foreshortened dipole works o...