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13 Cool Ideas for your Field Day Antenna.

The ARRL annual Field Day occurs on the last full weekend of June.  Thousands of radio amateurs world-wide participate in one of the biggest DX events of the year.

Antennas are alway a favorite topic of this event, and getting the right antenna for your club or personal station can be a difficult decision.

Thanks to our friends at "The DX Zone", your choice can be narrowed to 13 antennas that deliver lots of contacts at minimal cost.

Here is the list of Field Day Antennas that will help boost your score while providing hours of contest fun.

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13 Cool Ideas for Your Field Day Antenna

Check out these cool ideas to make your own Field Day Antennas

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Field Day Antenna

Check out these cool ideas and get inspired to homemade your HF Field Day Antennas.

You may find additional inspiration by visiting our large collection of articles about:

Field Day Antennas

End Fed Half Wave Antenna for 6 / 40 Meter
EARC
6m to 40m EndFed Half Wave Antenna project produces an inexpensive, multiband, end fed HF antenna matchbox that is quick and easy to setup and use.
Smithe Windom Six Band HF Windom antenna
K3MT
HF Windom antenna, cover 80, 40, 20 15, and 10 meters, antenna design
KN5L Field Day Vertical Antenna
This Field Day Vertical Antenna project is the result of many years of attending various field day sites and realizing that what was needed is a simple, easy to assemble vertical antenna.
40 Meter Full Wave Loop
N4KGL
A 7MHz Full wave loop antenna in diamond shape for field day operations made with three 31 foot Jackite poles
2 elements YAGI for field day operation
VE3RGW
A wire yagi antenna for 20 and 40 meters band suitable for outdoor and field day operations
HF Wire antennas
VE3NXB
About HF Wire Antennas for field day or any day a basic wire antenna article
JA7KPI Windom antenna for 40-80
JA7KPI
The total length of this antenna is 41m, height is about 11m, and diameter of element is 2mm. JA7KPI modified this antenna originally used as Inverted-V type of 80m band Dipole. Works on 40 - 80 meters band with acceptable swr.
Windom Antenna 3.5-30 MHz
HA3HJ
A windom multiband antenna project with pictures and diagram for the 6:1 balun
Vertical antenna for 20-15-10 m
F5ZV
This is a vertical multiband antenna made up of several aerial elements lambda/4 length, feeded with just a coaxial cable in French.
Random Wire Antennas
ARRL
ARRL article on random wire antenna, simple antennas that can be tuned for every band, excellent solution for field day operations
D3 Antenna for Field Day
D3+ High Performance Antennas for Field Day. This article describes versatile broadband wire antennas. These antennas will double your effective radiated power over a dipole, will be easy and inexpensive to build and install, and will be simple to match.
Compact Multi-band Field Day Antenna
NC4FB
A Compact size 80-10 m field day antenna offering a Low angle of radiation and very easy to build and set up

Enjoy the Field Day !


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