• •  Antennas 101  QST September 2004

• •  Wire Antennas for Beginners   QST June 1993

• •  Dipole Feed Points
     Dipole Fundamentals
     H. Ward Silver, N0AX QST Sept. 2017

• •  Field Expedient Antennas
     Submitted by: D. Johnson, AA1LO

• •  Using 40 meter Dipole on 15
     Joel R. Hallas, W1ZR
     QST, April 2017

• •  2-Meter Half-Wave J-Pole Antenna
     © David Jordan, WA3GIN

• •  2-Meter End-fed Monopole "Slim-Jim"
     As suggested by KX4Z

• •  Simple 4-Element 2-Meter Yagi
     Pete Rimmel, N8PR

• •  BALUNS: Choosing the Correct Balun
     Tom, W8JI, ©DX Engineering

• •  A Ham's Guide to RFI, Ferrites, Baluns, and
     Audio Interfacing
     Jim Brown, K9YC, Rev. 6, 2016

• •  SWeaRing or Some Facts and Fantasies
     About Standing Wave Ratios
     L.B. Cebik, W4RNL (SK)

ADVANCED ANTENNAS

• •  Radiation Resitance
     Feed Point Impedance and Mythology
     Robert J. Zavrel, Jr., W7SX,
     QEX, March 2014

• •  Off-Center-Fed Dipole
     Revisited: A Broadband, Multiband Antenna
     VE2CV & VE3KLO, QST August 1990

• •  Double Extended Zepp   H.Ward Silver, N0AX
     QST, Feb. 2014

• •  An Improved Double Extended Zepp
     Rudy Sevems, N6LF, QEX,

• •  Having a Field Day with the Moxon Rectangle
     L.B. Cebik, W4RNL (SK) QST, June 2000

• •  A 6-Meter Quad-Turnstile
     L.B. Cebik, W4RNL (SK) QST, May 2002

• •  The PVC Loop-Low Cost Ticket to High DX Gain
     Gary DeBock, August 2009

• •  An Improved 160/80-Meter Matching
     Network for Your 43-Foot Vertical
     Steve Masticola, WX2S, QST Sept. 2017

• •  The W2FMI Ground-Mounted Short Vertical
     [Using Capaity Hats]
    Sevick, QST, Mar 1973

• •  Top-loaded Delta Loop Antenna
     75 Meters
    Witt, W1DTV, ham Radio, Dec 1978

• •  Broadband Terminated Vee Beam Wire Antennna
     1.8-54 or 3.5-54 MHz
     Ten-Tech

Near Verical Incidence Skywave: Simple antennas for regional communications. A "MUST-HAVE" for Emcomm, and local to regional HF nets, the NIVS antenna is not useful for DX.

• •  NVIS- A Low Antenna for Regional
     Communications
     KK7XO, QST, June 2002

• •  A PRACTICAL NVIS ANTENNA
     For Emergency or Temporary Communications
     © DX Engineering

• •  DUAL-BAND NVIS ANTENNA
     A Presentation by W6QJI & N7NVP

•  NVIS ANTENNA THEORY AND DESIGN

• •  Radio Communications via Near
     Incidence Skywave Propagation
     An Overview
     Witvlet, B.A. & Alsina-Pages, R.M.
     Telecomun Syst DOI 10.1007/s11235-017-0287-2

• •  Near Vertical Incidence Skywave Propagation:
     Elevation Angles and optimum Antenna Height
     for horizontal Dipole Antennas
     Witvlet, B.A., et al
     Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE , vol.57,
     no.1, pp.129-146, Feb. 2015

Counterpoise & Radials

• •  Folded Counterpoise
     A treasure trove of antenna an related information

• •  Myth of the RF Ground
    H. Ward Silver, N0AX QST January 2015

• •  Ground Mounted Verticals
     Dispelling Radial Misconceptions
     A Presentation by VE3XK

• Experimental Determination of Ground System
  Performance for HF Verticals.   A Seven
  Part Series by Rudy Severns, N6LF
  • 1.  Test Setup & Instrumentation
  • 2.  Excessive Loss in Sparse Radial Screens
  • 3.  Comparison Between Ground Surface
         and Elevated Radials
  • 4.  How Many Radials Does My Vertical
         Really Need
  • 5.  160 Meter Vertical Ground System
  • 6.  Ground Systems for Multiband Verticals
  • 7.  Ground Systems With Missing Sectors
  

Transmission & Propagation

• •  Navy Antenna & Wave Propagation
     A Navy training course covering Antennas,
     Propagation, Transmission & Waveguides
     98 pages, 7.5 MB file

• •  Reflections III
     Transmission Lines and Antennas,
     M. Walter Maxwell, W2DU
     225 pages, 10 MB file
     © CQ Communications 2010

• •  Path Loss Prediction
     Performance Analysis of Path Loss Prediction
     in Wireless Mobile Networks in Different
     Propagation Environments, EECSS'17

• •  Method for point-to-point predictions
     for terrestrial services in the frequency range
     30 MHz to 4,000 MHz,
     Recommendation ITU-R P.1546-6

• • IARU VHF Handbook
     IARU 2020

• •  Rapid and Accurate Measurements
     of Polarization and Fading of Weak VHF Signals
     Obliquely Reflected from Sporadic-E Layers
     Deacon & Witvliet, et al.
     IEEE Transactions on Antennas & Propagation

• •  Foreward-Scatter Meteor Detection
     using GNU Radio +RTL-SDR devices
     Marcus Leech
     Science Radio Laboratrories

• •  Amateur Radio Astronomy Projects
     Solar Radio in VLF range
     Jon Wallace, QEX, Jan/Feb 2010

• •  Temporate Zone Sporadic-E Model
     Ken Nuebeck, WB2AMU, QST

Propagation-Atmospherics

• •  Understanding Solar Indices

• •  Uniting the Sun's Hale magnetic cycle and
     "extended solar cycle" paradigms

• •  spaceweather.com

• •  Lightning Strike Map

• •  NASA Solar Cycle Progression and Forecast
  

• •  NOAA Planetary-K Index

• •  NOAA Space Weather

• •  NOAA Space Weather Scales Explanation