Hf Beam Antenna Homebrew

After a few talked he gave us an article about vertical antenna that he took from the internet.

Hf beam antenna homebrew.

It somewhat resembles a wolf river coil. My vertical my g5rv my skywire horizontal loop and my multi band dipole all do a reasonably good job from 160 through 6 meters. We use some simple software designed by dan maguire ac6la which was first published on l b. Mobile dual band vhf uhf antenna homebrew project from ve3rgw mobile hf antenna by hb9abx 10 80m mobile hf multiband antenna project from mark d.

Slinky antenna build video here. 40m 2 elements full size yagi antenna elements uhf yagi antenna m5aml homebrew aerials 2m 70cm antennas vhf uhf beam and yagi antennas at dx on6mu uhf 4 6 10. All bands vertical antenna hf homebrew a few months ago my friend 9w2 ayr anuar and i visited my new friend 9m2lr mr richard lau at nibong tebal south of seberang perai penang. Lowell n1lo moxon antenna projects 17m and 20m via kd6wd.

Basically a moxon rectangle is a 50 ohm two element wire beam antenna. Https youtu be som1sobyoh8 i ve changed out the speaker wire counterpoise on my slinky antenna with a tape measure. A 1 4 wave on 144 mhz is 3 4 wave on 440. Unexpectedly a local ham generously offered me a hex beam which was smaller lighter and basically was a two element yagi on each of he hf bands.

Helically loading a beam or vertical has been extensively discussed in the arrl handbook antenna handbook moxon s hf antennas for all locations for many many years. As this antenna was new to me i got a few of these stations to rotate their beams so i could see the front to back ratio. I also got descriptions as to how they were put together how they performed etc. The hexbeam worked very well indeed.

They enabled me to work more than 200 countries with only 100 watts since i returned to being active in 2005. You should join the hex beam. This video is a short demonstration of a homebrewed vertical antenna using a inductive coil that i made. It consists of a driven element and a reflector.

I accepted the offer and with the help of some local hams it was up on top of the new mast. But i yearned for more. It had nearly the same specs as the yagi i was about to build. So i wanted an hf beam.

Has good hf beams already 20 thru 10m and perhaps needs something for 30 40 and even 80m. So let s proceed to the mini moxon project at w7xa linear loading making a folded back section is somewhat mechanically complex and can add significantly.