An-Ten-Ten-nas

In each issue of the 10-10 News, I try to clarify a significant cluster of ideas used in antenna work. My object is to help members make the best decisions about the antennas they buy or build without imposing my own prejudices on them. The more we understand, the better our choices will be.

• No. 1: dB, dBi, and dBd
• No. 2: Invisible and Hidden Antennas
• No. 3: Where Does the Gain Come From?
• No. 4: Antennas and Low Sun Spot Counts
• No. 5: What Difference Does Height Make?
• No. 6: The Simplest 2-Element Yagi?
• No. 7: The Poor Old ZL Special
• No. 8: Raiding the Hardware Store
• No. 9: Fans and Bow Ties
• No. 10: Notes on 10-Meter Antenna Tuners
• No. 11: Mobile Antennas for 10 Meters
• No. 12: Multiband vs. 10-Meter Dipoles
• No. 13: K4HJJ's 2-Element Minibeam (pdf)
• No. 14: EDZs: Stacked and Unstacked
• No. 15: Coax: The Short Story
• No. 16: Antenna Noise
• No. 17: Some Misconceptions About SWR
• No. 18: The Simplest 3-Element Yagi?
• No. 19: A 3-Element 10-Meter Beam on an 8' Boom
• No. 20: The Rotatable Dipole Revisited (pdf)
• No. 21: A Simple 2-Element 10-Meter Quad
• No. 22: The Handy Quarter-Wave Matching Section
• No. 23: Some Notes on Antenna Safety
• No. 24: Three Ways to Skin a Quad Loop
• No. 25: The 10-Meter L-Antenna
• No. 26: When Should I Use a Vertical on 10?
• No. 27: A Compact Aluminum Moxon Rectangle
• No. 28: Beta Coils and Hairpins
• No. 29: Some Larger 10-Meter Yagi Designs
• No. 30: The V-Yagi
• No. 31: A Triangular Vertical Array
• No. 32: What the Heck is a Stub?
• No. 33: The Cheapest 2-Element Beam?
• No. 34: The Turnstile Antenna on 10
• No. 35: A 10-Meter, 6-Element OWA Yagi
• No. 36: 4- and 5-Element OWA Yagis
• No. 37: 6- and 7-Element OWA Yagis
• No. 38: Notes on Home-Brewing 10-Meter Yagis
• No. 39: Frequently Asked Questions
• No. 40: More Frequently Asked Questions
• No. 41: A 10-Meter J-Pole
• No. 42: A Hilltopper Portable Dipole
• No. 43: A Small 10-Meter Very-Wide-Band Yagi
• No. 44: A Large 10-Meter Very-Wide-Band Yagi
• No. 45: What Should I Expect from a Yagi?
• No. 46: The Persistent Vee-Beam Myth
• No. 47: What is a Balun, and Do I Need One?
• No. 48: The Ubiquitous 4:1 Balun
• No. 49: The Basic 10-Meter Monopole
• No. 50: Notes on Horizontal Antenna Height
• No. 51: The Tri-Moxon Switched Vertical Array
• No. 52: Gain vs. Beamwidth
• No. 53: A Short-Boom Wide-Band 3-Element Yagi
• No. 54: An Orientation to Reasonable Yagi Expectations
• No. 55: What to Expect from Multi-Band Yagis
• No. 56: Some Ideas for Quad Loops in the Field
• No. 57: A Different Kind of 10-Meter Attic Antenna
• No. 58: The Revere Theory of Vacation Antennas
• No. 59: Some Basic Concepts for Directional Antennas (pdf)
• No. 60: A 7-Element Very Wide-Band Log-Cell Yagi (pdf)
• No. 61: Frequently Asked Questions about Coax (pdf)
• No. 62: A 4-Element Very-Wide-Band 10-Meter Beam (pdf)
• No. 63: 10-Meter LUV in the Attic (pdf)
• No. 64: An Improved Hilltopper Portable Dipole (pdf)

Highlighted entries are on line. I convert series entries to on-line documents as they appear in the 10-10 News.

The first 30 columns are now available in print form from 10-10 International via the Data Manager. See the 10-10 web site for address information.

Updated 01-15-2008. © L. B. Cebik, W4RNL. Data may be used for personal purposes, but may not be reproduced for publication in print or any other medium without permission of the author.

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