Top Five ANTENNAS for NEW HAMS
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Are you a new ham? Are you new to HF? These are my top five recommendations for HF antennas for new hams.
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The G5RV has a successor, ZS6BKW, basically the same antenna, slightly different measurements, matches on more bands. Otherwise, I agree on your choices. Antennas go in and out of fashion, EFHW are popular, but I prefer antennas that don't need an UNUN.
Your preference is noted. This was a video to show simple antennas for new hams where most of them are multi banded so they can find their favorite band.
Hi Morten, thanks for the nice presentation.
BTW, I love the background image of this video 😂!
73 HB9HWH
Thanks!
As far as performance is concerned I vote for the horizontal dipole for a couple reasons: First it almost always will have more gain than a vertical. Around 5 to 8 dB unless it’s very low. Second it has a broad pattern off the sides. So you get good gain off the sides. There is a reduction in gain off the ends, so you may want to point the ends in your least desired direction, but only if the dipole is high. More than one dipole can be connected in parallel for more than one band. Longer than a halfwave and you start getting more nulls and it takes very long wired to develop and significantly gain and only then it’s in narrow lobes. Just my 2 cents worth from 60 years on the air.
Thanks for your input. I agree with your arguments to a certain degree, but I believe that a multi band antenna is better for a new ham, simply because the new ham does not have an idea of what the bands are like.
@@LB0FI you are right but sometimes it helps to start simple on one band and learn it then move to another. 40 and 20 are the ones I recommend to most of my radio students. I have helped several new hams build 40, 20 and 10 meter dipoles on one feedline. Usually they get 15 as a bonus. It can be sloping, inverted V, or “flat top”.
Keep up the good videos!
Thank you for this video. I’m a technician and learning daily. Videos like this help. Much appreciated.
You’re welcome!
Hey Morten, I'm happy to have found your channel. Fantastic video mate! Cheers! Simon VA7BIX
Happy to see you here Simon! Love your channel as well! And if you think this is good, you should see my much better videos.
I would add Off Center Fed Dipole. Still needs about a 4:1 and 3 mounting points like a dipole but multibands very well.
That was number six on my list, and actually the second antenna I got myself.
I like and support your choice of antennas in your top 5.
Thanks!
A G5RV is not a dipole simply fed with ladder line. It also is feed with a very specific length of coax. If that coax isn't there, it's a doublet.
Yes
Good choices. I like the EFHW and the dipole for the beginner since they are easy to build and you don't need a tuner (my radio doesn't have an internal tuner).
There’s a reason why the EFHW is on top of my list.
This is a great article! Thanks for making it.
Thanks!
Solid recommendations.
Thanks Mike
Great video.
Thanks!
EFHW FTW 🙌
Absolutely. It’s not the best antenna, but it is flexible.
Rybakov ?
Absolutely a good choice, but it’s too finicky for a new ham. The reason I know this is because my first antenna was a commercial Rybakov, and it took me two years until the solar cycle was good enough to learn how to deploy it the right way.
thanks .. mi0num
Thanks for being a reliable POTA hunter!