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Ham Radio Antennas
By William Weaver | Submitted On June 04, 2007
One of the most critical parts of a ham radio setup is the antenna. You can have the most expensive and the most powerful rig on the market today but your signal goes nowhere without a good properly setup antenna system. I will give you a basic introduction to Ham Radio Antennas here.
There are many different types of antennas for the ham radio operator. There are directional antennas such as the yagi and quad and nondirectional antennas such as the vertical. Each of these types of antennas have their place. There are wire antennas of all types and sizes depending on the frequency being used and how much room you have to put one up. Wire antennas for the most part are semi-directional and usually radiate their signals in a figure eight, broadside to the plane of the wire. Wire antennas can be made directional depending on the design and configuration. So can vertical antennas but it requires more than one antenna and adequate space to erect them.
The yagi type of antenna is directional and has several elements that are generally designed for one frequency. There are those that will tune to two or three amateur frequency bands but lose some power and bandwidth in the design. These antennas are designed to be mounted on a tower or pole type of support with a means of turning them in the direction that you want the signals to go. They are very popular with the serious hams because of their ability to receive and transmit radio signals in the desired direction.
The cubical quad antenna, like the yagi, is a directional antenna also. These antennas tend to be very large at some frequencies. They are very effective directional antennas if you have the room to put them up. Cubical quad antennas are made of wire and some kind of supporting structure such as bamboo or fiberglass poles. They also are mounted so they may be rotated into the desired direction.
Wire antennas are for the most part designed with a specific frequency in mind. They can be very simple in design such as a dipole, which is two pieces of wire insulated in the center and installed between two supports and relatively flat or supported by one pole and the sides sloping like an inverted vee shape or supported by a single pole with the wire sloping in the direction that you want the signal to go. These antennas are very simple to design, tune and install and are very popular with beginning ham radio operators. Wire antennas can be very complex also with many pieces of wire, signal traps, coils, insulators and tuner components.
These antennas are the most used types of Ham Radio Antennas. Antenna design, tuning and installation can consume a lot of the ham radio operators time, but it is very rewarding when those signals come in and go out where you want them to, with the maximum transfer of power.
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Amateur Ham Radio Antennas
By Steven J Deines | Submitted On December 18, 2011
There are many types of amateur radio antennas because licensed ham radio operators (Hams) have many bands and many thousands of possible frequencies they can use for two way radio communication.
Most Hams today pass a simple examination which allows them to start in the hobby with a VHF portable radio which works in the two meter band. These 2m transceivers transmit at around 146 MHz, so a small antenna works well for them.
Other amateur radio operators enjoy the excitement of long range radio, talking over the shortwaves to other hams around town, in other cities or in other countries. They need an amateur radio antenna that is much larger, because the radio signals there vibrate at a lower (and longer) frequency. And a transmitting antenna always needs to resonate (or match) the frequency of the signal it is sending.
So ham radio antennas for the shortwave bands vary from wire aerials that are more than 200 feet long to maybe 66 feet or so. And vertical antennas or towers can go up forty feet or more straight up in the air. All these different two way radio aerials have different strengths and weaknesses in store.
Certain amateur radio antennas are excellent for long range work, others for short range or for mobile or portable use. Then there are beam antennas, which concentrate their power in one direction and suppress signals at their back and sides. These beam antennas need to be mounted on a mast or a tower so they can be rotated and aimed in whatever direction is needed that day.
There are three main designs for beam antennas. These are yagi antennas, quad antennas and broadband log-periodic dipole antennas. Yagi antennas may be single band or multi-band designs, and can he HF, VHF or UHF. The 14 MHz (20m band) is usually the lowest ham band they cover, especially in 3 or 4 band yagi antenna designs. Quad antennas on the HF bands usually have just two elements and can be multi-banded. There are cubical quads and spider quad designs. (On the vhf bands, a quad antenna smaller than HF, so it might have four elements. But yagis are more common for vhf and uhf bands.) On the HF bands, log-periodic antennas are really large - so they are more common with government embassies and the military. Few hams have the money or the real estate for such large shortwave antennas.
The simplest form of amateur radio antenna is the wire half-wave dipole. This is fed in the middle with coaxial cable that runs back to your radio transceiver. If a wire antenna is fed in the middle with twinlead instead of coax, it is known as a doublet antenna. A doublet can be fed with home-made 600-ohm spaced wires, commercially-made 450 Ohm ladder-line or common 300 Ohm TV twinlead. Feed this into a good antenna tuning unit, and you have an antenna which can be used to work on several different ham bands...a simple multi-band ham antenna.
In the early days of amateur radio, many hams hand-built a lot of their radio equipment including the receivers, transmitters and always their antennas. Today its a lot easier to go into a radio store and buy your radio transceiver (two way radio) and a range of amateur radio antennas from different manufacturers.
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Ham Radio Antennas
By Jameson J Meer | Submitted On November 05, 2009
There are a lot of different kinds of antennas for the operator of ham radio. There are antennas like the quad and yagi and non directional antennas like the vertical. Each of these kinds of antennas have their own place. There are wired antennas of all sizes and types depending on the occurrence being utilized and how much space you have to put an antenna up.
The yagi antenna type is directional and has a few elements that are designed for 1 frequency. There are antennas that will tune to 2 or 3 frequency bands but drop some bandwidth and power in the design. These kinds of antennas are intended to be mounted on a pole or tower support type with a means of putting them in the place that you like the signals to go. They are so popular with the critical hams because of their capability to transmit and receive radio signals in the preferred direction.
The quad antenna, like the yagi antenna, is also a directional antenna. These directional antennas tend to be so large at some occurrences. They are so effective directional antennas if you've the place to put them up. Quad antennas are created of wire and some other kind of supporting formation such as fiberglass or bamboo poles. They're mounted so they can be turned into the preferred direction as well.
Antennas that are wire, for the most part made with a particular frequency. They could be so simple in design like a dipole, which is 2 pieces of wire lined in the center and placed between 2 supports and comparatively flat or assisted by 1 pole and the sides inclined like an upturned "V" shape or assisted by 1 pole with the wire inclined in the position that you like the signal to go. These antennas are so simple to tune, design, and install and are so popular with starting operators of ham radio. Wire antennas could be so complex with a lot of pieces of wire, coils, signal traps, tuner and insulators components.
Such antennas are the commonly used Ham Radio Antennas types. Antenna tuning, design, and installation could use a lot of the operator's time, but it is so rewarding when these signals come in and out where you like them to, with the utmost power transfer.
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