Wire Antennas for Ham Radio

                                                                                                                             Iulian Rosu YO3DAC / VA3IUL, http://www.qsl.net/va3iul

 

01 - Tee Antenna

02 - Half-Lamda Tee Antenna

03 - Twin-Led Marconi Antenna

04 - Swallow-Tail Antenna

05 - Random Length Radiator Wire Antenna

06 - Windom Antenna

07 - Windom Antenna - Feed with coax cable

08 - Quarter Wavelength Vertical Antenna 

09 - Folded Marconi Tee Antenna

10 - Zeppelin Antenna

11 - EWE Antenna

12 - Dipole Antenna - Balun

13 - Multiband Dipole Antenna

14 - Inverted-Vee Antenna

15 - Sloping Dipole Antenna

16 - Vertical Dipole

17 - Delta Fed Dipole Antenna

18 - Bow-Tie Dipole Antenna

19 - Bow-Tie Folded Dipole Antenna for RX

20 - Multiband Tuned Doublet Antenna

21 - G5RV Antenna

22 - Wideband Dipole Antenna

23 - Wideband Dipole for Receiving

24 - Tilted Folded Dipole Antenna

25 - Right Angle Marconi Antenna

26 - Linearly Loaded Tee Antenna

27 - Reduced Size Dipole Antenna

28 - Doublet Dipole Antenna

29 - Delta Loop Antenna

30 - Half Delta Loop Antenna

31 - Collinear Franklin Antenna

32 - Four Element Broadside Antenna

33 - The Lazy-H Array Antenna

34 - Sterba Curtain Array Antenna

35 - T-L DX Antenna

36 - 1.9 MHz Full-wave Loop Antenna

37 - Multi-Band Portable Antenna

38 - Off-center-fed Full-wave Doublet Antenna

39 - Terminated Sloper Antenna

40 - Double Extended Zepp Antenna

41 - TCFTFD Dipole Antenna

42 - Vee-Sloper Antenna

43 - Rhombic Inverted-Vee Antenna

44 - Counterpoise Longwire

45 - Bisquare Loop Antenna

46 - Piggyback Antenna for 10m

47 - Vertical Sleeve Antenna for 10m

48 - Double Windom Antenna

49 - Double Windom for 9 Bands

50 - Collinear Trap Antenna

51 - Short Dipole Antenna for 40m - 80m - 160m

52 - Center Fed-Zepp Antenna for 80m - 40m

53 - All Bands Antenna

54 - All-Bands Dipole Antenna

55 - Multiband Z Antenna

56 - Multiband Dipole Antenna

57 - Five-Bands No-Tuner Antenna

58 - Dualband Full-wave Loop Antenna for 80m-40m

59 - Loop Antenna for 10m

60 - Lazy Quad Antenna for 10m

61 - Tri-band Delta Loop Antenna for 80m - 40m - 30m

62 - Dual-band Loop Antenna for 30m - 40m

63 - Wire-Beam Antenna for 80m

64 - Dual-Band Sloper Antenna

65 - Inverted-V Beam Antenna for 30m

66 - ZL-Special Beam Antenna for 15m

67 - Half-Sloper Antenna for 160m

68 - Two-Bands Half Sloper for 80m - 40m

69 - Linear Loaded Sloper Antenna for 160m

70 - Super-Sloper Antenna

71 - Tower Pole as a Vertical Antenna for 80m

72 - Clothesline Antenna

73 - Curtain Zepp Antenna for 160m, 80m, 40m

74 - Collinear Array Antenna for 40m, 30m, 20m

75 - 160m Inverted Delta Loop

76 - Half Rhombic Unidirectional Vertical for 20m to 6m

77 - Capacitance Loaded Vertical Antenna for 160m

78 - Fan Dipole Antenna for 80m to 6m

79 - Wire Ground Plane Antenna

80 - Inverted Delta Loop Antenna for 160m

81 - Inverted-L for 160m

82 - 300ohm-Ribbon Dual Band Dipole

83 - Tri-Band Beam for 20m, 15m, 10m

84 - Mini-Horse Yagi  Antenna

85 - Backpack J-Pole Antenna for 10m, 6m, 2m

86 - Fan-Dipole Antenna for 80m, 40m, 20m

87 - Capacity Tuned Folded Loop Antenna for 20m

88 - Indoor Loop Antenna for 80m to 30m

89 - Indoor Loop Antenna for 80m

90 - Double-Delta Antenna 80m and 40m

91 - Inductance-Loaded Shortened Dipole for 160m

92 - V-Beam Antenna for 15m

93 - Picnic Vertical Wire Antenna

94 - Laid-Back Quad Antenna for 80m

95 - Phased Loop Antenna

96 - Loop Antenna for TX for 160m

97 - Morgain-Dipole Antenna for 160m and 80m

98 - ZL-Special for 20m, 15m, 10m

99 - Biconical Antenna

100 - Directive Delta-Birdcage Antenna for 20m to 10m

 

 

101 - Dual Polarization Antenna for 80m and 40m

102 - Directive 300-ohm-Ribbon Folded Dipole for 15m

103 - Miniature Directive Antenna for 10m

104 - Biquad Antenna 12dBi-Gain for 2.4GHz

105 - Dual-Rhomboid Antenna for 435MHz to 870MHz

106 - Double-Bazooka Antenna for 80m

107 - J-Style Antenna

108 - Vertical / Horizontal / Circular Polarization Antenna

109 - Coax Inverted-L Antenna for 80m

110 - Indoor Compact Loop Antenna for 80m

111 - Helix Antenna

112 - Novice Vertical Antenna for 80m, 40m, 15m, 10m

113 - Stub-Loaded Shortened Dipole for 80m

114 - Six-Band Wire-Stub Trap Antenna for 40m-10m

115 - Multiband Half-Wave Delta-Loop Antenna

116 - Hybrid Vee for 20m, 17m

117 - Six-Shooter Array Antenna, Gain=7.5dB

118 - Multiband Ground-Plane Antenna for 10m, 15m, 20m

119 - Wire Superbeam Antenna for 10m, 15m, 20m

120 - Two Elements Delta-Loop Antenna

121 - Sterba Curtain Antenna

122 - Half-Wave Vertical Zepp Antenna

123 - Lazy-Loop Antenna for 40m

124 - Terminated Folded Dipole for 80m, 40m

125 - Short-Fat Antenna for 15m

126 - Cobra Antenna for 80m

127 - Log-Periodic Wire Antenna for 20m, 15m, 10m

128 - 5-Element Log-Periodic Vertical Antenna for 80m, 40m, 20m

129 - 2m Vertical Wire Antennas

130 - Earth-Mover Inverted-V Antenna for 40m

131 - Coax-Cable Collinear Antennas

132 - Double Bobtail Antenna for 20m

133 - Collinear Zepp Antenna

134 - Taylor Vee Antenna for 20m

135 - Collinear Vertical Antenna 6dB-Gain for 2m, 1.3m, 73cm

136 - Bi-Loop Antenna for 20m

137 - Wire Beam 6dBd-Gain for 10m

138 - Sloping Diamond Antenna 4dB-Gain for 40m

139 - Twisted Loop Antenna for 160m

140 - DX RX Loop Antenna for 160m

141 - Hentenna 3dB-Gain for 10m, 6m, 2m

142 - VK2AAR Wire Antenna for 20m

143 - 2-Elements Quad Antenna for 6m

144 - Hula-Loop Bidirectional 6dB-Gain Antenna for 17m

145 - Moxon Rectangle Beam for 15m-10m

146 - Double-D Beam 4dB-Gain

147 - KE4PT OCEF All-Band Dipole

148 - Wire Quad Antenna for 40m

149 - Inclined Dipole Antenna for 80m, 40m

150 - Pyramidal Wire Antenna for 80m

151 - Random Wire Antenna All Bands

152 - Multiband Dipole Antenna for 80m, 40m,15m, 10m

153 - Slim Jim Wire Antenna for 4m

154 - Delta Loop for 6m

155 - Re-Configurable Antenna for 160m and 80m

156 - Very Low Frequency Inverted-L Antenna

157 - Reduced Size Half Sloper Antenna for 160m

158 - Tree-Mounted HF Antenna

159 - Multiband Vertical Antenna for 80m, 40m, 20m

160 - Marconi Antenna for 136 kHz

161 - Simple Killer Antenna for 40m

162 - Stub-Directed V Antenna for 80m

163 - KT0NY Over-and-Under DX Antenna for 20m

164 - Horizontal Loop Antennas

165 - Ribbon J-Pole for 2m

166 - Dual Band Ribbon J-Pole for 2m, 70cm

167 - Square Vertical Loop Antenna for 40m

168 - Tri-Band Quad Antenna for 20m, 15m, 10m

169 - 3D Quad Antenna for 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m, 10m

170 - Sloping Wire Antenna for 30m, 20m, 17m, 15m, 12m, 10m

171 - Broadband Dipole Antenna with Coaxial Resonator for 80m

172 - Resonant Feedline Dipole Antenna for 80m

173 - Dual-Band Loading Wire Antenna for 80m, 30m

174 - Stub Matching Antennas

175 - J-Style Vertical Wire Antenna for 10m

176 - Dual Band Vertical with Zepp Feeders for 40m, 20m

177 - RCA Double Doublet for 40m to 12m

178 - RCA Spiderweb Antenna for 40m to 6m

179 - Folded Dipole with Shorted Straps

180 - Twin-Lead Marconi Antenna for 160m, 80m

181 - Broadband Antenna Quarter-Wave Balun for 80m

182 - Three-Quarter-Wave Folded Doublet for Dual-Band

183 - Three-Quarter-Wave Folded Doublet No-Switch for Dual-Band

184 - Wideband Omni-Directional Discone Antenna

185 - Wideband Rhombic Antenna for 40m to 10m

186 - Pre-Cut Linear Array Antenna 3dB-Gain for 40m

187 - X-Array Antenna 6dB-Gain for 20m, 15m, 10m

188 - Double-Bruce Array Antenna 5dB-Gain for 20m, 10m

189 - Bi-Square Broadside Array Antenna 4dB-Gain for 20m, 15m, 10m

190 - Six-Shooter Broadside Array Antenna 7.5dB-Gain for 20m, 15m, 10m

191 - Triplex Flat-Top Beam 4.5dB-Gain for 20m, 15m, 10m

192 - Dual-Band Tilt Antenna for 20m, 10m

193 - Super Space Multiband Dipole Antenna for 80m to 10m

194 - Bi-Square Beam Antenna Gain=5.5dB for 10m

195 - Cousin of G5RV Multiband Antenna for 40m to 10m

196 - Cayman Quad Antenna for 20m

197 - Hentenna Gain=3dB with Bazooka Match for 6m

198 - X-Beam Antenna Gain=3dB for 20m

199 - Twin Delta Loop Antenna Gain=6dB for 160m, 80m, 40m

200 - Inverted-V Beam Antenna for 30m

 

 

 


01 - Tee Antenna


02 - Half-Lamda Tee Antenna


03 - Twin-Led Marconi Antenna


04 - Swallow-Tail Antenna


05 - Random Length Radiator Wire Antenna


06 - Windom Antenna


07 - Windom Antenna - Feed with coax cable


08 - Quarter Wavelength Vertical Antenna 


09 - Folded Marconi Tee Antenna


10 - Zeppelin Antenna


11 - EWE Antenna


12 - Dipole Antenna - Balun


13 - Multiband Dipole Antenna


14 - Inverted-Vee Antenna


15 - Sloping Dipole Antenna


16 - Vertical Dipole


17 - Delta Fed Dipole Antenna


18 - Bow-Tie Dipole Antenna


19 - Bow-Tie Folded Dipole Antenna for RX


20 - Multiband Tuned Doublet Antenna


21 - G5RV Antenna


22 - Wideband Dipole Antenna


23 - Wideband Dipole for Receiving


24 - Tilted Folded Dipole Antenna


25 - Right Angle Marconi Antenna


26 - Linearly Loaded Tee Antenna


27 - Reduced Size Dipole Antenna


28 - Doublet Dipole Antenna


29 - Delta Loop Antenna


30 - Half Delta Loop Antenna


31 - Collinear Franklin Antenna


32 - Four Element Broadside Antenna


33 - The Lazy-H Array Antenna


34 - Sterba Curtain Array Antenna


35 - T-L DX Antenna


 

36 - 1.9 MHz Full-wave Loop Antenna

 


 

37 - Multi-Band Portable Antenna

 


 

38 - Off-center-fed Full-wave Doublet Antenna

 

 


 

39 - Terminated Sloper Antenna

 

 


 

40 - Double Extended Zepp Antenna

 

 


 

41 - TCFTFD Dipole Antenna

 

 


 

42 - Vee-Sloper Antenna

 

 


 

43 - Rhombic Inverted-Vee Antenna

 

 


 

44 - Counterpoise Longwire

 

 


 

45 - Bisquare Loop Antenna

 

 


 

46 - Piggyback Antenna for 10m

 

 


 

47 - Vertical Sleeve Antenna for 10m

 

 


 

48 - Double Windom Antenna

 

 


 

49 - Double Windom for 9 Bands

 

 


 

50 - Collinear Trap Antenna

 

 


 

51 - Short Dipole Antenna for 40m - 80m - 160m

 

 


 

52 - Center Fed-Zepp Antenna for 80m - 40m

 

 


 

53 - All-Bands Antenna

 

 


 

54 - All-Bands Dipole Antenna

 

 


 

55 - Multiband Z Antenna

 

 


 

56 - Multiband Dipole Antenna

 

 


 

57 - Five-Bands No-Tuner Antenna

 

 


 

58 - Dualband Full-wave Loop Antenna for 80m-40m

 

 


 

59 - Loop Antenna for 10m

 

 


 

60 - Lazy Quad Antenna for 10m

 

 


 

61 - Tri-band Delta Loop Antenna for 80m - 40m - 30m

 

 


 

62 - Dual-band Loop Antenna for 30m - 40m

 

 


 

63 - Wire-Beam Antenna for 80m

 

 


 

64 - Dual-Band Sloper Antenna

 

 


 

65 - Inverted-V Beam Antenna for 30m

 

 


 

66 - ZL-Special Beam Antenna for 15m

 

 


 

67 - Half-Sloper Antenna for 160m

 

 


 

68 - Two-Bands Half Sloper for 80m - 40m

 

 


 

69 - Linear Loaded Sloper Antenna for 160m

 

 


 

70 - Super-Sloper Antenna

 

 


 

71 - Tower Pole as a Vertical Antenna for 80m

 

 


 

72 - Clothesline Antenna

 

 


 

73 - Curtain Zepp Antenna for 160m, 80m, 40m

 

 


 

74 - Collinear Array Antenna for 40m, 30m, 20m

 

 


 

75 - 160m Inverted Delta Loop

 

 

 


 

76 - Half Rhombic Unidirectional Vertical for 20m to 6m

 

 

 


 

77 - Capacitance Loaded Vertical Antenna for 160m

 

 

 


 

78 - Fan Dipole Antenna for 80m to 6m

 

 

 


 

79 - Wire Ground Plane Antenna

 

 

 


 

80 - Inverted Delta Loop Antenna for 160m

 

 

 


 

81 - Inverted-L for 160m

 


 

82 - 300ohm-Ribbon Dual Band Dipole

 


 

83 - Tri-Band Beam for 20m, 15m, 10m

 


 

84 - Mini-Horse Yagi  Antenna

 


 

85 - Half-Rhombic Directive Antenna for 20m to 6m

 

 


 

86 - Fan-Dipole Antenna for 80m, 40m, 20m

 


 

87 - Capacity Tuned Folded Loop Antenna for 20m

 


 

88 - Indoor Loop Antenna for 80m to 30m

 


 

89 - Indoor Loop Antenna for 80m

 


 

90 - Double-Delta Antenna 80m and 40m

 


 

91 - Inductance-Loaded Shortened Dipole for 160m

 


 

92 - V-Beam Antenna for 15m

 


 

93 - Picnic Vertical Wire Antenna

 


 

94 - Laid-Back Quad Antenna for 80m

 


 

95 - Phased Loop Antenna

 


 

96 - Loop Antenna for TX for 160m

 


 

97 - Morgain-Dipole Antenna for 160m and 80m

 


 

98 - ZL-Special for 20m, 15m, 10m

 


 

99 - Biconical Antenna

 


 

100 - Directive Delta-Birdcage Antenna for 20m to 10m

 


 

101 - Dual Polarization Antenna for 80m and 40m

 


 

102 - Directive 300-ohm-Ribbon Folded Dipole for 15m

 


 

103 - Miniature Directive Antenna for 10m

 


 

104 - Biquad Antenna 12dBi-Gain for 2.4GHz

 

 


 

105 - Dual-Rhomboid Antenna for 435MHz to 870MHz

 


 

106 - Double-Bazooka Antenna for 80m

 

 


 

107 - J-Style Antenna

 


 

108 - Vertical / Horizontal / Circular Polarization Antenna

 

 


 

109 - Coax Inverted-L Antenna for 80m

 


 

110 - Indoor Compact Loop Antenna for 80m

 

 


 

111 - Helix Antenna

 


 

112 - Novice Vertical Antenna for 80m, 40m, 15m, 10m

 


 

113 - Stub-Loaded Shortened Dipole for 80m

 


 

114 - Six-Band Wire-Stub Trap Antenna for 40m-10m

 


 

115 - Multiband Half-Wave Delta-Loop Antenna

 


 

116 - Hybrid Vee for 20m, 17m

 


 

117 - Six-Shooter Array Antenna, Gain=7.5dB

 


 

118 - Multiband Ground-Plane Antenna for 10m, 15m, 20m

 


 

119 - Wire Superbeam Antenna for 10m, 15m, 20m

 


 

120 - Two Elements Delta-Loop Antenna

 


 

121 - Sterba Curtain Antenna

 


 

122 - Half-Wave Vertical Zepp Antenna

 


 

123 - Lazy-Loop Antenna for 40m

 


 

124 - Terminated Folded Dipole for 80m, 40m

 


 

125 - Short-Fat Antenna for 15m

 


 

126 - Cobra Antenna for 80m

 


 

127 - Log-Periodic Wire Antenna for 20m, 15m, 10m

 


 

128 - 5-Element Log-Periodic Vertical Antenna for 80m, 40m, 20m

 


 

129 - 2m Vertical Wire Antennas

 


 

130 - Earth-Mover Inverted-V Antenna for 40m

 


 

131 - Coax-Cable Collinear Antennas

 


 

132 - Double Bobtail Antenna for 20m

 

 


 

133 - Collinear Zepp Antenna

 

 


 

134 - Taylor Vee Antenna for 20m

 


 

135 - Collinear Vertical Antenna 6dB-Gain for 2m, 1.3m, 73cm

 


 

136 - Bi-Loop Antenna for 20m

 


 

137 - Wire Beam 6dBd-Gain for 10m

 


 

138 - Sloping Diamond Antenna 4dB-Gain for 40m

 


 

139 - Twisted Loop Antenna for 160m

 


 

140 - DX RX Loop Antenna for 160m

 


 

141 - Hentenna 3dB-Gain for 10m, 6m, 2m

 


 

142 - VK2AAR Wire Antenna for 20m

 


 

143 - 2-Elements Quad Antenna for 6m

 


 

144 - Hula-Loop Bidirectional 6dB-Gain Antenna for 17m

 


 

145 - Moxon Rectangle Beam for 15m-10m

 


 

146 - Double-D Beam 4dB-Gain

 


 

147 - KE4PT OCEF All-Band Dipole

 


 

148 - Wire Quad Antenna for 40m

 

 


 

149 - Inclined Dipole Antenna for 80m, 40m

 

 


 

150 - Pyramidal Wire Antenna for 80m

 

 


 

151 - Random Wire Antenna All Bands

 

 


 

152 - Multiband Dipole Antenna for 80m, 40m,15m, 10m

 

 

 


 

153 - Slim Jim Wire Antenna for 4m

 

 


 

154 - Delta Loop for 6m

 

 

 


 

155 - Re-Configurable Antenna for 160m and 80m

 

 


 

156 - Very Low Frequency Inverted-L Antenna

 

 


 

157 - Reduced Size Half Sloper Antenna for 160m

 

 


 

158 - Tree-Mounted HF Antenna

 

 


 

159 - Multiband Vertical Antenna for 80m, 40m, 20m

 

 


 

160 - Marconi Antenna for 136 kHz

 

 


 

161 - Simple Killer Antenna for 40m

 

 


 

162 - Stub-Directed V Antenna for 80m

 

 


 

163 - KT0NY Over-and-Under DX Antenna for 20m

 

 


 

164 - Horizontal Loop Antennas

 

 


 

165 - Ribbon J-Pole for 2m

 

 


 

166 - Dual Band Ribbon J-Pole for 2m, 70cm

 

 


 

167 - Square Vertical Loop Antenna for 40m

 

 


 

168 - Tri-Band Quad Antenna for 20m, 15m, 10m

 

 


 

169 - 3D Quad Antenna for 80m, 40m, 20m, 15m, 10m

 

 


 

170 - Sloping Wire Antenna for 30m, 20m, 17m, 15m, 12m, 10m

 

 


 

171 - Broadband Dipole Antenna with Coaxial Resonator for 80m

 

 


 

172 - Resonant Feedline Dipole Antenna for 80m

 

 


 

173 - Dual-Band Loading Wire Antenna for 80m, 30m

 

 


 

174 - Stub Matching Antennas

 

 


 

175 - J-Style Vertical Wire Antenna for 10m

 

 


 

176 - Dual Band Vertical with Zepp Feeders for 40m, 20m

 

 


 

177 - RCA Double Doublet for 40m to 12m

 

 


 

178 - RCA Spiderweb Antenna for 40m to 6m

 

 


 

179 - Folded Dipole with Shorted Straps

 

 


 

180 - Twin-Lead Marconi Antenna for 160m, 80m

 

 


 

181 - Broadband Antenna Quarter-Wave Balun for 80m

 

 


 

182 - Three-Quarter-Wave Folded Doublet for Dual-Band

 

 


 

183 - Three-Quarter-Wave Folded Doublet No-Switch for Dual-Band

 

 


 

184 - Wideband Omni-Directional Discone Antenna

 

 


 

185 - Wideband Rhombic Antenna for 40m to 10m

 

 


 

186 - Pre-Cut Linear Array Antenna 3dB-Gain for 40m

 

 


 

187 - X-Array Antenna 6dB-Gain for 20m, 15m, 10m

 

 


 

188 - Double-Bruce Array Antenna 5dB-Gain for 20m, 10m

 

 


 

189 - Bi-Square Broadside Array Antenna 4dB-Gain for 20m, 15m, 10m

 

 


 

190 - Six-Shooter Broadside Array Antenna 7.5dB-Gain for 20m, 15m, 10m

 

 


 

191 - Triplex Flat-Top Beam 4.5dB-Gain for 20m, 15m, 10m

 

 


 

192 - Dual-Band Tilt Antenna for 20m, 10m

 

 


 

193 - Super Space Multiband Dipole Antenna for 80m to 10m

 

 


 

194 - Bi-Square Beam Antenna Gain=5.5dB for 10m

 

 


 

195 - Cousin of G5RV Multiband Antenna for 40m to 10m

 

 


 

196 - Cayman Quad Antenna for 20m

 

 


 

197 - Hentenna Gain=3dB with Bazooka Match for 6m

 

 


 

198 - X-Beam Antenna Gain=3dB for 20m

 

 


 

199 - Twin Delta Loop Antenna Gain=6dB for 160m, 80m, 40m

 

 


 

200 - Inverted-V Beam Antenna for 30m

 

 


 

References:

 

Antenna Toolkit - J. Carr

Practical Antenna Handbook - J. Carr

More Antenna Classics - C. Hutchinson

Amateur Radio Techniques - P. Hawker

The Radio Handbook - W. Orr (editor), 15th edition

The Radio Antenna Handbook - Engineering Staff of "Radio"

Jones Antenna Handbook - Frank C. Jones

ARRL Antenna Handbook 1990-2007

ARRL Handbook 1937-2009

ARRL Antenna Compendium

73 Magazine 1970-2002

Funkamateur Magazine 1990-2011

RSGB Handbook - 2007 - 2010

QST Magazine - 1980 - 2010

 

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