[My Ham Radio Journey] wanted to see if a “common person” (in his words) could build an effective vertical ham radio antenna. If you look at the video below, the answer is apparently yes. He started ...

Ham radio isn’t just one hobby. It is a bunch of hobbies ranging from chatting to building things, bouncing signals off the moon, and lots of things in between. Some of these specialties, such as ...

The purpose of this article is to explain, in detail, the process involved in building and tuning a high-frequency (HF) RFID antenna, which would operate at 13.56 MHz. Some concepts will be explained ...

6 Best HF Antennas for 2025 to Boost Your Ham Radio Signal Anywhere Links to the best HF Antennas are listed down below: 6. Moonraker Ltd GPA-80 5. DX Engineering XB-5 Hexx Beam HF Antenna 4. Foul ...

Written by Joseph Darlington, P.E. When building any radio system, the scarcest and most precious system component is not the radios, the antennas nor the towers, but available “clean” radio channels ...