Additional information on this subject and related topics can be found in back issues of QST and the following:

The ARRL Antenna Book
Antenna Compendium Vol's 1 through 6
Vertical Antenna Classics

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Articles

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• Curtains for You (1,969,773 bytes, PDF file)
  QST October 1991, pp. 26-30. Feedback, QST December 1991, p.73
  If you have the real estate and the trees, construct this classic Sterba wire curtain for real gain on 10 meters
  
• The 160-Meter Antenna Dilemma (712,399 bytes, PDF file)
  QST November 1990, pp. 30-32
  A tutorial on what is needed to produce a decent signal on 160-meters.
  
• Broadband Transmitting Wire Antennas for 160 through 10 Meters (243,434 bytes, PDF file)
  QST November 1995, pp.22-24
  A traveling-wave antenna offers some attractive qualities for your station: 50 ohm feedpoint at ground level, no tuner required, horizontal and vertical radiation components, no radials, nothing in the air but wire, and flexible size and height requirements.
  
• The BRD Zapper: A Quick, Cheap and Easy "ZL Special" Antenna (165,194 bytes, PDF file)
  QST June 1990, pp. 28-29
  A 15-meter wire antenna that could be used indoors.
  
• The Scotsman’s Delight (929,160 bytes, PDF file)
  QST June 1963, pp. 24-26
  10-, 15-, or 20-meter two element wire beam.
  
• The Real "ZL Special" (383,476 bytes, PDF file)
  ARRL Antenna Book, Ninth Edition, p. 214
  10-, 15-, or 20-meter two element unidirectional wire antenna.
• The "Lowbander's" One-Antenna Farm (586,355 bytes, PDF file)
  QST February 1982, pp. 23-24
  Not enough area for a full-size 160-meter antenna? You may have more room, electrically, than you realize - with plenty of space for 80- and 40-meter antennas, too.
  
• The NRY: Simple, Effective Wire Antenna for 80 through 10 Meters (1,089,807 bytes, PDF file)
  QST March 1993, pp.22-24
  Known as a broadside collinear curtain array, this antenna is simple to build, rakes in DX signals and has gain over a dipole on all the bands it covers!
• Zip-Cord Antennas - Do They Work? (169,873 bytes, PDF file)
  QST March 1979, pp. 31-32
  Parallel power cord is readily available and is easy to work with. How efficient is it when used at radio frequencies? Well, that depends.
• The "Double-Bazooka" Antenna (834,376 bytes, PDF file)
  QST July 1968, pp. 38-39
  Broad-band dipole using coaxial construction.
• The Off-Center-Fed Long-Wire
  W1FB's Antenna Notebook, 1987, pp. 36-38
  This is a simple wire multiband antenna that can be fed with either coax or ladder-line and can be made to operate well from 160- to 10-meters with an antenna tuner.
  
• A 40-Meter DDRR Antenna (1,556,173 bytes, PDF file)
  QST December 1971, pp. 28-32
  The DDRR will provide communications of respectable quality where it is impossible, because of inadequate space, to erect a 40-meter dipole.
  
• Study of the DDRR Antenna (599,394 bytes, PDF file)
  QST July 1972, pp. 27-31, 36
  The theory behind the DDRR.
• The NVIS--A Low Antenna for Regional Communications (288,967 bytes, PDF file)
  QST June 2002, pp. 28-30
  A low-to-the-ground wire loop antenna that can provide good regional coverage, day or night.
• The N4GG Array (537,493 bytes, PDF file)
  QST July 2002, pp. 35-39
  A simple, nearly invisible, multiband wire antenna with reasonable gain, low angle of radiation.

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