Antenna Pages Guide


Antenna design is one of my favority playgrounds. I have tested and built almost everything which can be used for radioing on HF. During the years we have lived in an appartment in Berlin we were limited regarding the antenna farm. So my focus was on lightweight and effective solutions for DX-peditioning.
The Butternut HF9V was our very effective main antenna. Nevertheless we tried triple legs, all variants of dipoles and were always looking for the extreme leigthweight directional antenna with gain.

In the late 90's I found the hexagonal beam design which sounds very promissing to me. Unfortunely not many information about multiband designs was published. So I started on my own and meanwhile a wide varity of multiband designs can be found here. As the "try 'n error" method was not useful I have calculated all and tested most of the published designs.
For more details please refer to the Reflected W pages.

The first directional HF antenna I called my own was a 2 element quad. I think this is one of the best antennas one can use for radioing. Its effective full wavelength elements offer best efficiency combined with the closed loop feature to reduce noise from static or industrial emissions.
Please find some interesting designs here.
Beverage antennas, magnetic or K9AY loops... what should I use for receiving? Please find some comments and suggestions out of my experience.