Simple Ham Radio Antennas

If you want a truly unusual HF antenna for your next ARRL Field Day, check out this fascinating video from Bob (W9BVX). Be sure to get local clearance and permission before you launch this different kind of antenna support. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVXJB-k8co0 Here are some comments about the video: At the young age of 9, Bob W9BVX, visited an ARRL Field Day site with his dad and saw the most amazing thing; an HF antenna lifted into the air by a helium balloon. Ever since that day, his life's dream was to do the same thing. Watch now as he ticks another item off his 'bucket list'. Thank you to the Wisconsin Valley Radio Association for assistance with this project: Http://www.wvraclub.org . Support Ham Radio Q & A! Shop Amazon: http://amzn.to/29Nj1mP ----- Thanks for joining us today. Aloha es 73 de Russ (KH6JRM).  

Here's another way to support a large vertical antenna--use a helium balloon as an improvised tower. Thanks to Bob (W9BVX) and the KB9VBR Amateur Radio Video Channel, we see how a group of antenna experimenters used a balloon as an impromptu antenna support during a field operation. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVXJB-k8co0 Here are comments from Bob (W9BVX); At the young age of 9, Bob W9BVX, visited an ARRL Field Day site with his dad and saw the most amazing thing; an HF antenna lifted into the air by a helium balloon. Ever since that day, his life's dream was to do the same thing. Watch now as he ticks another item off his 'bucket list'. Thank you to the Wisconsin Valley Radio Association for assistance with this project: Http://www.wvraclub.org . Support Ham Radio Q & A! Shop Amazon: http://amzn.to/29Nj1m ----- Thanks for joining us today. Aloha es 73 de Russ (KH6JRM)

If you can't find a suitable antenna support for your next portable or field operation, try this solution from W9BVX and the Wisconsin Valley Amateur Radio Club. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVXJB-k8co0 This is post 2527 in a continuing series of simple ham radio antennas. Here's some more information about this intriguing antenna: At the young age of 9, Bob W9BVX, visited an ARRL Field Day site with his dad and saw the most amazing thing; an HF antenna lifted into the air by a helium balloon. Ever since that day, his life's dream was to do the same thing. Watch now as he ticks another item off his 'bucket list'. Thank you to the Wisconsin Valley Radio Association for assistance with this project: Http://www.wvraclub.org ​ . Support Ham Radio Q & A! Shop Amazon: http://amzn.to/29Nj1mP ----- Video courtesy of Michael Martens (KB9VBR). Thanks for joining us today. Aloha