Last night my good friend Fred, PA3YH was visiting me. We’ve made a 1:1 balun for my new multiband dipole. I did think Fred has a funny name for such a antenna: cat-mustache-antenna. The design of the antenna is still in my head mainly. But soon I will make a drawing of it and I’ll…
Tag: Antenna’s
Antenna problems
Last weekend I’ve done some work on my multi band open dipole. Seems that the wires for 40m, 20m and 10m where all too long. That way the antenna was not resonant inside those bands but lower. So last weekend I went on the roof with a cutting tool. After a few hours tweaking the…
Skywire loop antenna
Some time ago I was reading about an full wave loop antenna. I was interested in this antenna right away. Since the preparation for the full radio exam I was told that full size antenna’s always outperform half wave or quarter wave antenna’s. The only problem is the space you need to make such an…