• New Book HF Dipole Antennas for Amateur Radio Now Shipping

    From ARRL de WD1CKS@VERT/WLARB to QST on Wed Feb 20 03:17:47 2019
    02/19/2019

    ARRL's HF Dipole Antennas for Amateur Radio[1] is a collection of 20 HF dipole antenna designs from the pages of QST between 2000 and 2017. It includes innovative antenna projects for single-band and multiband antennas, as well as antennas for portable applications.

    Portable Antennas


    o "An Easy-to-Make Three-Band Dipole for ARRL Field Day"


    o "A Field-Portable Multi-Band Rotatable Dipole Antenna"


    o "A Small, Portable Dipole for Field Use"


    o "A Portable Twin-Lead 20-Meter Dipole"


    o "The NJQRP Squirt"



    Multiband Antennas


    o "A Shortened 60-Meter Dipole That Also Covers 15 Meters"


    o "A Compact Multiband Dipole"


    o "A Folded Skeleton Sleeve Dipole for 40 and 20 Meters"


    o "A Fan Dipole for 80 through 6 Meters"


    o "A No Compromise Off-Center Fed Dipole for Four Bands"


    o "Six-Band Loaded Dipole Antenna"


    o "The Classic Multiband Dipole"


    o "A Dipole Curtain for 15 and 10 Meters"


    o "K8SYL's 75- and 10-Meter Dipole"


    o "The N4GG Array"



    Single-Band Antennas


    o "A Lightweight Rotary Dipole for 40 Meters"


    o "The W0IH Tunable 80-Meter Dipole"


    o "A Coaxial Cable Vertical Dipole Antenna"


    o "A Wideband Dipole for 75 and 80 Meters"


    o "The K4VX Linear-Loaded Dipole for 7 MHz"



    A special bonus section by Jackson R. Richter, WB0USA, features a thorough discussion of how these popular multiband antennas function. It includes several antenna projects that you can build.

    HF Dipole Antennas for Amateur Radio[2] is available from the ARRL Store[3] or your ARRL Dealer[4]. (ARRL Item no. 0994, ISBN: 978-1-62595-099-4, $22.95 retail, special ARRL member price $19.95). Call 860-594-0355 or toll-free in the US, 888-277-5289. It will also be available as an e-book[5] for the Amazon Kindle.





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    [1] http://www.arrl.org/shop/HF-Dipole-Antennas-for-Amateur-Radio/
    [2] http://www.arrl.org/shop/HF-Dipole-Antennas-for-Amateur-Radio/
    [3] http://www.arrl.org/shop
    [4] http://www.arrl.org/arrl-publication-dealers
    [5] http://a.co/dzVD8rw

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