Category: Antenna and Propagation

Yesterday while I was contacting a friend at about 2500 km from here on 21 MHz, he told me that he was using a 20 m delta loop

I had a 10/6m fan dipole with a GI pipe as mast. As early rains with lightning had occurred in some places in my region, I thought of

Couple of days back, I read a post on Twitter mentioning lollipop supercompromized 160 m antenna. My Google search on Lollipop antenna did not bring me to an

I had mounted the End Fed Half Wave (EFHW) antenna which I had purchased recently with three masts. One CPVC pipe of 3 m length on the compound

Performance of the End Fed Half Wave antenna (EFHW) which I bought recently has not been good on 40 m, due to compromised mounting as a result of

I had made a half-wave dipole antenna for 10 m recently, but had not added a 1:1 balun at the feedpoint. There was no PL 259 connector at

When I started off in 1985 as an amateur radio operator, I was not aware of crimping PL 259 connector and had a tough time soldering the outer

Radiotriangulation is used for detection of hidden radio transmitters in an important radiosport among radio amateurs, popularly known as “Fox Hunt“. Two directional antennas operating from two locations

During an online discussion I came across a ‘Lazy inverted V antenna’ for 160 m with apex at 18 m. This prompted a search for the “Lazy Inverted

Five Eighths Wavelength or 5/8 Lambda Vertical Antenna is said to have highest gain among the vertical antennas with 3 dB gain over a quarter wave vertical antenna.