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20 meter Vertical with Balun


The balun is rather easy to make you need only a few items. This is a basic balun for a wire antenna, and it worked great for the flagpole
post 24 Mar 2024
20 meter Vertical with Balun

Antenna 20mt 14 Mhz Links

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20 Meter Ground Plane Vertical Antenna
It is a multiband vertical antenna composed of several radiating elements of lambda / 4 length supplied by a single coaxial cable

20m vertical aerial
About ten feet of 22mm copper pipe and about eight feet of 15mm copper pipe

20 meter Vertical with Balun
The balun is rather easy to make you need only a few items. This is a basic balun for a wire antenna, and it worked great for the flagpole

20m vertical antenna
Vertical antennas with a 1/4 or 1/2 wave sizing. Just a happy few build a 5/8 wave vertical antenna. This is remarkable, since the 5/8 has the lowest angle of radiation and has about 1dB more gain compared to 1/4 and 1/2 verticals

A cubical quad for 20 meter



Take off angle of horizontal antenna

Take off angle of horizontal antenna For horizontal polarization, the electric field will move sideways on a horizontal plane, while for vertical polarization it will oscillate up and down on a vertical plane

A remote antenna switch

A remote antenna switch An abiding dislike for bundles of cables running on the exterior of my house, so a remote antenna switch seemed like a good idea

5 element yagi antenna for 28.5 Mhz

5 element yagi antenna for 28.5 Mhz Gamma match will be made with a 1/2 "aluminum tube and a 75 cm coaxial piece of RG8 without sock and sheath inside the tube