Simple, Low-Cost Wire Antennas for Radio Amateurs

This practical handbook contains the following types of information: - How to build tested wire antennas 2 - 160 meters that really get out (horizontals, verticals, beams, trap antennas, ground planes, etc.) - How to build "invisible" antennas - How to build two all-purpose antenna tuners with 100 uses - How to build an efficient, inexpensive balun for optimum antenna performance and accurate SWR readings - How to build 2, 3, 4, and 5-band trap dipoles and how to construct your own efficient traps and save money - 3-band Novice dipole for 80, 40, and 15 meters with only 1 feedline - Ground plane antennas for VHF, 6, 10, 15, 20, and 40 meters - High-gain beam antennas especially suited for 2 and 6 meter FM