Pattern and Match

The weather was finally conducive to tower work today, without rain, high winds or lightning. I also had no business or other responsibiliti...

I had a couple of hours last evening, just enough time to build and install the floating base for the opportunistically-guyed Site-C tower ....

You have likely heard the old saw that goes: no matter how long the legs, a 3-legged stool never wobbles . While true, sitting on such a sto...

As time has allowed I have been making decisions on siting, constructing and erecting the tower at (what I am calling) Site C . I think I no...

My how time flies. Since I have a few moments between tasks and the bands are effectively dead with this no-antenna antenna of mine I figu...

Here's a question that more hams (and OTA TV enthusiasts, for that matter) ought to ask themselves: are you smarter than the engineers a...

In an earlier article I discussed the ramifications of common-mode currents on the coax feeding a nested delta loop antenna. I used EZNEC f...

In an earlier article I described my antenna siting options. Three of those options (and two that I plan to use) require a small tower: one...

In my junk box I have a few antenna tuners, small and large. There is also a selection of components that can be cobbled together to make mo...

Antennas interact with their environment. In one sense that is obvious since that is the essence of what an antenna is all about: electromag...