We found an interesting tip that might just improve the performance of those small affordable handheld ham radios called ... monopole into a makeshift dipole antenna system. Per his instructions ...

At its simplest, a dipole antenna is just two pieces of wire cut ... mechanical support for the antenna to suspend it safely. [Ham Radio Dude]’s design handles both those requirements while ...

For a given ham band its lower and upper band edge frequencies are converted by the famous 468/f to dipole lengths. QST, Oct 1926, "The Length of the Hertz Antenna" shows in line 2 of the table that a ...

In Omaha recently, ham radio gear was mistaken for a pipe bomb. So the local bomb squad detonated what turned out to be part of a PVC dipole antenna, as a local TV station reports. Separately, amateur ...