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Let's Build an EFHW Antenna. If you attended Field Day 2022, you may have been one of the students that learned how to build an end fed half wave Antenna and actually got to build one and take it home. For those that were not able to do so, this page is for you.
This project assembles a 49:1 ferrite-core (“FT”) type #43 transformer that matches 50 ohm input to 2500 ohm end fed antenna. It is optimized for 3.5/7/10/14 MHz but will work reasonably well on all amateur bands from 80 meters thru 10 meters with a 135 foot length of wire and a short connection to ground.
Let's build a half wave or full wave vertical dipole with a novel matching method! These plans will help you build a vertical dipole using a coil for better matching and use tubing or thin walled pipe for the upper leg and wire for the bottom leg just to lighten things up, (or tubing also for the bottom leg if you prefer).
antenna is based on any number of parameters: specifically, the frequency or band of frequencies, location, directivity, and intended power range. This paper discusses some of the more important aspects of the End Fed Half Wave (EFHW) dipole antenna. The frequency band is HF (40 meters), and the intended power is 100 watts.
An 80-10 end-fed half-wave antenna can be a very good performing part of an HF station. But its performance depends heavily on a well-designed and carefully constructed 49:1 unun, which matches the long wire impedance to within tuning range of operation. But the perfor-mance of an end-fed antenna is also very dependent on height above ground.
15 paź 2022 · Field expedient antennas differ from home-based, permanent antennas. At a home QTH there is often plenty of room to install a larger, higher antenna. In the home shack, the radio is often capable of putting out a much more powerful signal than a field radio.
To help new hams prepare for the exciting world of HF opening up during Cycle 25, ARRL has partnered with HF Kits to bring you this easy-to-build four-band antenna kit: an end-fed half-wave (EFHW) antenna.
