ResonantOne Switched Multiband Antenna Design

ResonantOne Switched Multiband Antenna Design

Background For many radio applications, antenna operation at resonance across multiple frequency bands is highly desirable and has been the holy grail for many decades. The Switched Multi-Band Antenna (SMBA) is designed to operate over multiple bands at resonance and...

Purple Martin Birdhouse Antenna

For many of us, living in an HOA-managed neighborhood is a given. There are typically HOA restrictions on antennas – typically No Antennas in the newer neighborhoods. Now I’m not going to debate the pros/cons or rights/wrongs about HOA. The main purpose of...

GAP Titan DX Review

In July, my Spiderbeam mast was sideswiped by the winds from a thunderstorm that took out the mast and put an abrupt end to my Spiderbeam – a great antenna I’ve enjoyed for several years. Someday I plan to replace the Spiderbeam once I have a location I...

ResonantOne Multiband Dipole Antenna

As discussed in the ResonantOne Multiband Switched Vertical Antenna blog post, this post covers the corresponding dipole antenna, which is shown below. Multiband Switched Dipole (CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE) Interestingly, during last night’s NARS (Northwest Amateur...

ResonantOne Multi-band Switched Vertical Antenna

After many years of part-time experimentation, prototyping and numerous failed attempts, I am pleased to say that I finally broke through and found a combination of technologies that make it all worthwhile. As a result, below please find the “ResonantOne”...

Portable CrankIR Review by W5FCX

I recently had a trip to Bear Lake in Idaho planned and wanted to do some portable operation, so I decided to give the CrankIR a try. The heat in Texas becomes tiresome, so getting away from it further north is nice in the summer, and a great opportunity to experiment...

Spiderbeam Mast Down

This time around the Spiderbeam HD antenna and mast made it two years before succumbing to the winds of a thunderstorm. Here are the pictures. BEFORE View from the water View from below Side view Under – facing North (no guy line to South) AFTER View from the...

My Extra Exam Journey

As I just shared on our Antenna Design slack channel, I was fortunate enough to pass the Extra exam yesterday. I had some top-notch instructors – Skip Ferguson/K5LLR and Keith Dutson/NM5G, who invested their time with a bunch of us over two weekends to help pull...