Simple Ham Radio Antennas

  Building a full-sized 40 meter band antenna for a small yard can present several challenges. In this video, Callum (M0MCX) explores 3 antenna projects for his vacation home in Cornwall (United Kingdom). Each installation fits into a small plot and gives excellent results for the 40 meter amateur radio band. Perhaps Callum's antennas will give you some new ideas for placing HF antennas in your backyard or garden. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rtw2O0ZBIg. Thanks for joining us today. Russ (KH6JRM/AL)HA). Here are some comments from Callum (M0MCX): Three different antennas could have worked here. My personal challenge was to fit an antenna into a VERY SMALL area at the front of a property. I put up the DX Commander Expedition Antenna and made some fine DX Contacts. Would you have done it differently? Here is the link to our Linear Loaded Dipole:     • Small...

  Radio amateurs have a wide selection of antennas for portable operations. In this video, Walt (K4OGO) discusses some of the popular choices for portable operations, including the end-fed halfwave, inverted vee, half square, inverted L, and various vertical antenna designs. Based on his extensive "field" operations, Walt favors the basic EFHW because of its simplicity, ease of operation, and cost. If you can't see the video, please insert this title URL into your browser search box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQi7drIYinQ. Thanks for joining us today. Russ (KH6JRM/AL0HA). Here are some comments from Walt (K4OGO): If I could only have one antenna for all my portable ham radio activations this would be it. #hamradio #portablehamradio #hamradioantenna Link to Inverted L video mentioned:     • Increasing the Directional Gain of an EFHW...   Link to Half Square video mentioned:     • ...