Antennas From The Ground Up

L. B. Cebik, W4RNL


The following series of articles was originally prepared for publication in Low Down, the journal of the Colorado QRP Club. The series is designed to present fundamental antenna information, concentrating most fully on lower HF band wire antennas and related topics, to QRP operators. Since Low Down has devolved into a small newsletter, I have terminated the series and will place the remaining pre-prepared items here.


Note: This series (with revisions and enhancements) are available in book form under the titles from MFJ:

  1. Where Do Antennas Fit in Your Communications System?
  2. The Resonant Half-Wavelength Center-Fed Antenna
  3. Azimuth, Elevation, and Antenna Modeling
  4. Making a Dipole Fit the Space Available
  5. A 135' Center-Fed Multi-Band Dipole Data Compendium
  6. A 102' Center-Fed Multi-Band Dipole Data Compendium
  7. How to Make Your Tuner Work on Every Band
  8. Horizontal vs. Vertical Antennas on the Low HF Bands
  9. Fundamentals of Off-Center-Fed Dipoles
  10. Harmonic Operation of OCFs
  11. A 135' Off-Center-Fed Multi-Band Dipole Data Compendium
  12. A 135' End-Fed Multi-Band Dipole Data Compendium
  13. What Happens Along a Length of Feedline
  14. ATUs, Delta, and Tuner Losses
  15. More on ATUs, Delta, and Losses
  16. Noise, Antennas, and Receiving Systems
  17. Vertically-Oriented, Horizontally Polarized 1 wl Loops
  18. Multiband Use of VOHPLs
  19. Vertically Oriented, Vertically Polarized 1 wl Loops
  20. Some Facts and Fantasies About Standing Wave Ratios
  21. A Short Look at Wire Beams
  22. A Horizontal 80-Meter Multi-Band Loop Data Compendium
  23. Where to Place Your Impedance Matching Efforts
  24. The 75-Ohm 1/4 Wavelength Matching Section
  25. A 1/2 Wavelength Inverted-L Multi-Band Antenna Data Compendium
  26. A 3/8 Wavelength Inverted-L Multi-Band Antenna Data Compendium
  27. Differentiating Among Many Types of Grounds
  28. Why Parasitic Beams Work
  29. Interesting Alternatives to the Yagi
  30. A Collection of Inverted-Vee Patterns
  31. Handling Parallel Feedlines
  32. When and Which Parallel Feedline to Use
  33. Unwanted Currents and Their Suppression
  34. The 44' Doublet as a 40-10 Meter
  35. Sorting Out Bi-Directional Phased Arrays
  36. The Dual Expanded Lazy-H for 80-10 Meters
  37. A Potpourri of Bent Dipoles
  38. A Collection of Quadrant Antenna Patterns
  39. A Nearly All-Band Vertical Doublet
  40. The Terminated Wide-Band Folded Dipole Antenna
  41. The Terminated (Very) Longwire Antenna
  42. The Terminated Vee-Beam and Rhombic


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