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ARRL's Wire Antenna Classics

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This is a collection of wire antenna constructions articles taken mostly from QST from the 1950ties up to 1998. Actually it is a simple compilation of copies of the articles.
I am personally missing a detailed list of the articles and some kind of Index. Otherwise it's great to read these fine articles packed with good ideas, and of cause if your target is set on a wire antenna not much has changed over the last 60 years - all solid information
Further to me it's a great thing to read original articles from G5RV and W3 DZZ - to me this is a first time
This small book is a treasure of gold in a number of different ways
Ejner Nicolaisen OZ9EU

Very good book for the novice to the extra class. If you have wire you can make an antenna. Very good graphics and instructions on how to make all kinds of wire antennas. From field day projects to the avid dxers you will enjoy this book. K4TWT

Beautiful and interesting book about how to make several types of wire antennas, with good text and good pictures and tech drawings. Easy to understand and easy to make, with some tricks very interesting. In short, highly recommended.

Since the antenna is such an important part of the ham station; this book helps to understand the various wire antenna designs that are available. I feel it is a useful reference to my antenna library in addition to ARRL's big Antenna Book.

It is a collection of QST antenna articles describing dipoles, loops, collinears, verticals and wire beams. It also describes the Vee and its big brother, the rhombic. Overall, it is a good source of information to help understand the various wire antenna choices that are available; and really, a guy can't have too many antenna books!

You also may want to do a search on the Internet for the US Marines' Field Antenna Handbook, MCRP 6-22D, which shows in detail how to set up wire based antennas in the field. It's available in numerous places as a FREE download in PDF, like armymars net.

Almost anything you are trying to learn, the military has already done it and wrote a manual about it.

By the way, you can make your own NVIS antenna by using a telescoping window washing pole and putting a 1" PVC "T" at the top. To run the "guy wires" through.

I feel this book was well writen and easy to understand for the Ham Operator. It has some good tips for setting up a simple wire antenna to be able to start transmitting right away. I would recomend this book for the beginer as well as the expert radio ham as a great reference for all your antenna needs.

I am gradually building up my ham radio library. I ordered the book, hoping it would also have information about antenna theory, e.g. how they work. I was disappointed that it did not do that. I haven't gotten the more expensive ARRL books yet. A lot of the projects take up some serious property. I have a small yard, and a lot of them either didn't apply to me or were considerably larger than my yard. Some articles on vacation dipoles, slopers vs. vee vs. horizontal dipoles vs. OCFD, etc. would have been nice. Other than that, I've enjoyed reading the book, and have learned several things I didn't previously know.

This is a good book for the ham radio operator that enjoys experimenting with different types of wire antennas. WA4HGT

This book is easy to read and follow,reasonably simple for the beginner, and I assume that it would be valuable for the technically advanced. ARRL material is, so far, quite good. Thank you Amazon for carrying it.

A collection of QST articles from the past fifty years. Lots of interesting ideas. -- ws2i