title: Simple, Low-Cost Wire Antennas for Radio Amateurs
author: William I. Orr
description: 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
zlib_text: Antenna Materials
  Antenna Materials
  Antenna Materials
  Antenna Materials
  and Accessories
  and Accessories
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  Chapter 20 
  Antenna Materials
  and Accessories
  This chapter contains information on materials 
  amateurs use to construct antennas—what types of material 
  to look for in a particular application, tips on working with 
  and using various materials. Chapter 21 contains 
  information on where to purchase these materials. 
  Basically, antennas for MF, HF, VHF and the lower 
  UHF range consist simply of one or more conductors that 
  radiate (or receive) electromagnetic waves. However, an 
  antenna system must also include some means to support 
  those conductors and maintain their relative positions— 
  the boom for a Yagi antenna and the halyards for a wire 
  dipole, for example. In this chapter we’ll look at materials 
  for those applications, too. Structural supports such as 
  towers, masts, poles, etc. are discussed in Chapter 22. 
  There are two main types of materia