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ANTENNAS...
40 & 80 Meter Sweepstakes Antennas
A $50 Beverage
A Phased Pair of Beverages
Are Trees Good for Wire Vertical Supports?
Beverage Lengths
Beverage Notes
by KB1GW
Beverages: Terminating and Sloping Ends
Close-spaced Beverages
Design Your Own 5/8 Wave Vertical Antenna
Design Your Own Dipoles And Inverted Vees
Design Your Own Ground Plane
Design Your Own Half Wave Vertical Antenna
Design Your Own Quad
Experiment With Yagi Designs On Your Computer!
Fan-tenna.......An antenna made from a fan?
Folded Dipoles
Grounding Is Key To Good Reception
HF / VHF / UHF dipoles
ICE Matching Transformer
Is THHN Wire Good to Use for Antennas?
Longwire Impedance Matching
Low Noise Antenna Connection
More Beverage Notes
Nesting of Multiband Stacked VHF/UHF/HF Yagis
No-Tuner, All-HF-Band, Horizontal, Center-Fed Antenna
Phasing Two Tribanders
Resource For Amateurs Facing Antenna Restrictions
The Tiny 2
The Tiny 2+1
VHF / UHF Direct Connect Beams
W3LPL on Beverages
What is the "Best" Antenna for Field Day?
What is the Best Manual Antenna Switch?
Will an 80 Meter Diople Work on a Tall Building?
Wire Antennas

AURORA...
Aurora Alarm: Build one
Aurora Borealis - The Northern Lights
The Aurora Tutorial
The Aurora: The Basics, Briefly

DX...
How To Find Ten Meter Activity
Maidenhead Grid Squares

ELECTRONICS...
Amps and Preamps for Your Station
Best SWR Analyzer?
Bipolar Transistors
Code-Practice Oscillator
Receiving Filters
Resistors And Their Uses
Simple Telegraph Key
The LM386 Low Voltage Audio Power Amplifier
The MC1350P Monolithic I.F. Amplifier
The NE602/SA602 Double-Balanced Mixer and Oscillator
Using / Understanding Decibels

FEEDLINE...
Calculate Electrical Length Of A Line
Quarter Wave Line Matching Transformer
Types of Coax

MISC...
A 1968 interview with Dr. Harold H. Beverage
A 1992 Interview with Dr. Beverage
Autek RF1 Antenna Analyzer - Review
Beverage Preamps - Are they Necessary?
FCC Freq Bandplan
FM Voice Repeaters
How Far Can I Talk on 2 Meters?
Look up your Lat/Long
Megalist of parts suppliers
NiCad Batteries
RF Safety Calculator
Source for Watertight Enclosures

MOONBOUNCE...
Getting Started on EME

PROPAGTION...
Auroral E
FAI propagation
Free-space waves
Ground waves
Introduction to the Ionosphere
Ionospheric Scatter
Ionospheric waves
Radio Pro
Sporadic-E Introduction
Troposcatter Propagation
Tropospheric waves

QRP...
A QRP Transmitter From the Computer
Cleaner Keying for Ten-Tec 509
Curing VHF Interference in Ten-Tec Argonauts
Improving SSB Performance of Ten-Tec Argonaut 509
Improvements for W9GR DSP Audio Filter
Modifications to the SAMLEX PSA-305
Peak Power Mod: for WM-1 QRP Wattmeter
QRP-PLUS "Anti-Thump" Mod
RFtools
Watts Are For Wimps

SATELLITE...
A Mode J Desense Filter
Amateur Satellite FAQ
How to Work the Packet Robot on the Shuttle
Important facts for AO-10 & 13
Info: Amsat-Oscar 16
Info: Amrad-Oscar 27
Info: Dove-Oscar 17
Info: Fuji-Oscar 20
Info: Fuji-Oscar 29
Info: Itamsat-Oscar 26
Info: Kitsat-Oscar 23
Info: Kitsat-Oscar 25
Info: Lusat-Oscar 19
Info: Oscar 10 Sat.
Info: RS Sats
Info: UoSat-Oscar 11
Info: UoSat-Oscar 22
Info: Webersat-Oscar 18
Microsat Operation with the PK-232
Polarization Switching
Rig Modification for Microsat Operation
Satellite Antennas Hints and Kinks
Satellite Beacons
Satellite Radios
Telemetry Reception with the PK-232
The HF Satellite Antenna
The Lindenblad: The Ultimate Satellite Omni
Types of Antennas for Satellite Work
What Are Keplerian Elements?
Working the Easy Sats (Download File)
Working the Russian Sputniks

SOLAR...
Space Physics Textbook
Space Weather
The Solar Guide

TOWERS...
3 Way vs 4 Way Tower Guying
Cement: Base for tower
Cheap Tension Gauge for Tower Guy Wires
Guy Wire Insulator Spacing
How to Make Your Own Rohn 25G Insulated Section
How to Put Bolts Into Concrete
How to Unload a Crank-up Tower From a Freight Truck
Lightning Protection: Tower Base Explode?
Rohn Foldover Towers
Yaesu vs. Hygain Rotators

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