Simple Ham Radio Antennas

The ZS6BKW multiband HF Antenna is an excellent alternativer to the popular G5RV antenna. In this video, Steve (AD4XT) offers a comprehensive guide to the theory, construction, testing, and use of this simple, effective HF Antenna. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuCdtMe5vsg Here are some comment from Steve (AD4XT): A start to finish antenna build of the ZS6BKW HF 10M thru 80M. This antenna design has been out for quite a while. No tuner needed on most of the HF bands. A good alternative to the G5RV. This is an easy antenna build. You will need some 450 ohm window line and some wire. I found a cheap center T insulator on Ebay that really made this build go smooth. Thanks Steve Ad4xt Ebay center connector https://www.ebay.com/itm/US-MADE-450-... ----- Thanks for joining us today. Aloha es 73 de Russ (KH6JRM).  

If you need a simple, effective 20 meter antenna for portable or emergency use, then this moxon design from Chuck (KK6USY) is what you want. Chuck takes us step by step throught he design, building, testing, and use of this versatile HF antenna. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gHY1b4pauk Here are some comments from Chuck (KK6USY): The Moxon is one of the Best portable Gain antennas and easy to make! In this video I show how I made a 20 meter Moxon Antenna for portable operation like POTA or SOTA. Yea I know SOTA might be a stretch for most of us! If you make this antenna for home use, I would beef up the base plate and use a heavier gauge wire 18 -12awg. Also look into some heavier duty fiberglass supports for the spreaders. Check out the Ham Radio Adventures Merch shop: https://kk6usy-ham-radio-adventures.m... As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Materials used in this vi

If you have access to a TRC-372 manpack radio and its antenna accessories, you'll have a nearly perfect portable HF system. In this video from Gil ("Radio Prepper" video channel), we see how a coil and an AT-271 whip can make an excellent choice for field or emergency operations. As Gil relates, this experiment had some issues, especially with the construction of the coil. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser searchbox:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8TO2O2KOn4 Here are some comments from Gil: Things did not work as expected with this great design by VA3TNE on Thingiverse. The coil is used with an AT-271 military antenna whip, 3D printed and tested here with my TRC-372 manpack radio at the Col de Vence North of Nice. Maybe someone more experienced with coils could shed some light on the issue... STL 3D files: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:235... GET NORDVPN: Go to https://go.nordvpn.net/aff_c?offer_id... to get a 2-year p

Here's another great portable antenna idea from Paul (OM0ET).  You can make this HF DX Antenna from readily available materials. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3g_g27S5_w Here are some comments from Paul (OM0ET): The DX QSO to Canada has been achieved with my home made, portable vertical antenna and with only 20W on the 20m band 😉👍 It was beautiful sunny winter day and was great time to go on fresh air. I want to thank you all for my first 10 000 subscribers! It's amazing! I would never believed in that before 😊 Thank you for watching my videos and your big support of my work on this beautiful Hamradio hobby! QSO's in this video with: G4BFS, F4HUN, OQ5BECLEVER + others unknown (my apologize, we didn't use the logbook 🤪) 73, Paul Music in this video created by Scott Buckley – www.scottbuckley.com.au #Homemade #VerticalAntenna #DXcontacts ----- Thanks for joining us t

If you live in a high noise area, this Loop On The Ground Receive Antenna from Kevin Loughin (KB9RLW) should interest you. Kevin experiments with several designs and suggests way to reduce the noise picked up by your antennas. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0WvIxoU0LI Here are some comments from Kevin (KB9RLW): I spent some time exploring this low noise receiving antenna concept and tried a variation on it by lifting it slightly off the ground. Web link to source design: http://www.kk5jy.net/LoG/ If you like my videos, please subscribe here: http://www.youtube.com/user/loughkb?s... If you want me to keep making more videos like this, consider becoming my patron at Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/kb9rlw/ Discuss this and other videos on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kb9rlw/ ----- Thanks for joining us today. Aloha es 73 de Russ (KH6JRM).  

How to reengineer a commercial 5/8 wave CB antenna for the 10 Meter Amateur Radio Band. "Ianxfs" takes us step-by-step through the design, reconfiguration, construction, and testing of an adapted CB antenna dedicated to the 10 Meter Band. If you can't see the video, please check insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eboJV6rY4a4 Here are some comments from "Ianxfs": Further development of a design from the website below where a commercial 5/8ths wave CB antenna is reverse engineered. This enhanced model is tuned specifically for the 10m amateur band and also adopts a ferrite choke, which is an improved option over the air-wound choke which is also shown in the build. The parts for this simple DIY build probably already exist in your shack? If not, they come to about £5 for the air-wound choke model, or about £10 if you go for the ferrite choke model. A list of parts: Main Antenna = 3.5m RG58 coax + 3.25m of insulat

Thanks to Dave Tadlock (KG0ZZ) for this simple, compact, and efficient 2-element yagi antenna for the 10 meter Amateur Radio Band. Dave takes us step by step through the design, building, testing, and use of this basic antenna. This antenna can be used both at home and for portable operations such as the annual ARRL Field Day. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ5aYxLzJyM Thanks for joining us today. Aloha es 73 de Russ (KH6JRM).