“If you can make a dipole antenna, then you can make any antenna.” – NC Scout Background Your handheld radio has an antenna that is a quarter-wave “monopole”. It’s not very efficient, but it’s a compromise for better portability and convenience. You can improve this by using a Tiger Tail (also known as a Rat Tail). This is done by adding a counterpoise to your HT antenna, turning your monopole antenna to a dipole antenna. This inexpensive and simply made extension will increase your transmission range and may increase your reception. Because it is tuned you will need to create one for each of your commonly used frequencies. You can… Read More
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Building the Long Wire Directional Antenna
The Long Wire Directional Antenna is a field expedient antenna that was designed to transmit its signal in one direction. It is used by the military to setup at a covert transmitting location and is aimed towards their base. We explain the theory and practice here.
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Building the Jungle Antenna
We explain the the theory and the procedure to create a field-expedient Quarterwave Groundplane Antenna. Commonly referred to as a “Jungle Antenna”
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