PDF DOWNLOAD: Chapter 5
GETTING ON THE AIR
– DECIDING WHAT TO DO FIRST
- How to earn a license
- The rules of the homebuilding game – Whatever makes you happy!
- Picking an HF band
Getting acquainted with the HF ham bands, 160 – 10 meters + 6 meters
- Instant high quality HF communications
- VHF/ UHF handheld transceivers
- Building an antenna
Dipoles, regular and folded
Multi-band dipoles
80 meters when you don’t have room for a dipole
The curtain rod vertical
A multi-band vertical antenna
Lightning protection