Simple Ham Radio Antennas

If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc_L5xpEpxo. Thanks to Tom from "Practical Engineering Solutions" for this simple project designed to "ground antennas to earth ground and provide lightning protection for your rig." If you live in a lightning and thunderstorm-prone region, this project will go a long way in keeping your shack , home, and equipment out of harm's way. As an added precaution, I alway disconnect my antennas and equipment when I'm not using my ham radio gear.  So far, I've been lucky--I lost a fiberglass mast (with nothing attached) a few years ago, and that incident convinced me to ground all of my gear and antennas to a real earth ground. ------ For the latest Amateur/Ham Radio news and information, please visit these websites: http://www.HawaiiARRL.info. http://www.arrl.org. http://www.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/ http://www.hamradioupda

If you can't see the video,please insert this title URL into your browser search box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw6Sq2hkvIs. Here's another great antenna for the 160 meter amateur radio band.  All you need is a kite and 80 meters (262.467 feet) of strong wire.  Of course, a good wind really helps get this antenna into the air. According to "Steph", the entire antenna system is fairly simple and produces excellent results: "Using 80m of wire and a kite on the beach with backpack radio to operate on the 160m amateur radio ham band." ---------- For the latest Amateur/Ham Radio news and information, please visit these websites: http://www.HawaiiARRL.info. http://www.arrl.org. http://www.blubrry.com/arrlaudionews/ http://www.hamradioupdate.com. http://www.southgatearc.org. https://oahuarrlnews.wordpress.com. https://hamradiohawaii.wordpress.com. https://bigislandarrlnews.com. https://www.eham.net. https://paper.li/f-1576465810

If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0vZBsGi-jA. Ham Radio operators have installed their rigs and antennas in motor vehicles since the early years of the 20th century. In this fascinating video from UK radio amateur M0DAD, we see a complete HF station mounted on an ordinary bicycle.  The installation works quite well as he peddles down Blyth Beach, Northumberland, UK. Here are some of M0DAD's observations: "Video of my bicycle mobile amateur radio station. Riding along the seafront at Blyth beach Norhtumberland north east uk. Monitoring the realhfmobile dx net listening to group members from the north west coast uk in qso with Australia and New zealand. Also a discription of the equipment used." ----- For the latest Amateur/Ham Radio News and Information, please visit these websites: http://www.HawaiiARRL.info. http://www.arrl.org. http://www.blubrry.com/arrlaudionew

If you can't view the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXD9rAOM_o4 . Thanks to Kevin Loughnin (KB9RLW) for this remarkably simple, inexpensive L network antenna "tuner" for long wire and random length HF antennas. Coupled with a good ground radial / couterpoise system, this easily made "tuner" will allow multiband HF performance from a single end-fed wire antenna. Here are some observations from Kevin: "They're really very simple to build. I over-built this one to make it clear for the video, but you could make it smaller, put it in a nice box with labels and paint. ;-) I did just that in a newer video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-fuQ... The antenna I had connected for the demo is an external 98 foot (29.87 meters) end fed wire". ---------- For the latest Amateur/Ham Radio news and information, please visit these websites: http://www.HawaiiARRL.info. http://w

If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLSqfgvGg8M. This is post 2133 in a continuing series of simple ham radio antennas. Here's another great antenna idea from Australian radio amateur Peter Parker (VK3YE).  All you need are 20 meters (65.6 feet) of antenna wire, 8 meters (26.24 feet) of balanced feed line, and a balanced antenna "coupler" to make an antenna capable of working any amateur/ham radio band between 80 and 10 meters. Here are some general guidelines from Peter: "Not your ordinary 7 MHz dipole. This works on all bands up to 28 MHz. It achieves this with a home made tuned feedline and balanced antenna coupler which is described in the video. The antenna is 20 metres from end to end while the feedline is about 8m long (neither critical). I only had room for 5 switches so omitted the 0.1 uH and 6.4 uH coils that VU2ESE used. Not having the latter may mean