Simple Ham Radio Antennas

WB4IUY's Random Blog: Great Fan Dipole Diagram (http://wb4iuy.blogspot.com/2011/11/11/great-fan-dipole-diagram.html). Accessed on 24 December 2016, 21:45 hrs, UTC . Author:   Dave (WB4IUY). Please click title or enter the title URL into your browser to read the full article. Comment: If you want multiband HF coverage and can only erect one antenna for that purpose, you may want to consider the classic "Fan Dipole" which has served the Amateur Radio community for many decades. In this post, Dave (WB4IUY) describes a fan dipole created by YC8PVU which can cover several HF Amateur Radio bands with just one antenna using a single 50 ohm coaxial cable feed line .  You can add 160 meters, any WARC band , and event 6 meters using the same concept. This antenna doesn't require an antenna transmatch (i.e. "tuner") and automatically band switches.  Tuning is a bit critical, since the antenna elements are fairly close together.  But, as an all around...