Out of all antennas I installed and used at my (antenna-restricted) OTH the one I liked instantly was MFJ "hamstick" dipole(s): the size, the ease of installation, the way it could be rotated manually -- fiberglass mast I use allows it -- and how the signal/noise changes with the rotation. There were problems with the hamstick dipoles though: they turned out not very good radiators, the one for 20m is better than for 40m, but generally all poor and lossy. The little modeling I've done confirmed it. Also, hamstick dipoles I have are low power (125W max).

So...I went on the quest for finding a rotatable dipole which
(1) would fit in my small patio,
(2) could be installed on the fiberglass mast I have and
(3) could handle at least five hundred watts of (recently installed in the shack) Elecraft KPA500.

I came back last week with MFJ-1775 multiband (10-15-20-40m) rotatable dipole, assembled it, tuned and tested during the 2018 ARRL DX SSB Contest this weekend. Here are my impressions:

Been a new ham, I build all kind of antennas; in a process of doing this I accumulated long list of internet references I am sharing below. I will be updating it, deleting old/outdated/not important references and adding new. Due to my present QTH the main focus is compact/limited space antennas, but the list is not strictly limited to this subject. It is a bit chaotic as it originates from the text file I have been dumping my findings to for many month, but proven to be useful, so here it is:

TOPICS

• DIPOLES AND DOUBLETS
• LOOPS
  • Magnetic loops
• YAGIS
  • Moxons
  • Portable hexbeams
• ZEPPS AND J-POLES
  • J-pole and horizontal Zepp
  • OCF Colinear for 80m (Rus)
• VERTICALS
  • Half-square and bobtails
• ON WIRE ANTENNAS
• ON ANTENNA TRAPS
• TOOLS, TIPS AND STUFF
  • DIY VHF/UHF antennas
  • DIY Band Pass Filters

last updated Mar 01, 2018

ON ANTENNA TRAPS

• http://www.vwlowen.co.uk/java/trap.htm
• http://www.iw5edi.com/ham-radio/?how-antenna-traps-work
• http://www.w8ji.com/traps.htm

YAGIS

• 2 element beams
• 2 and 3 element mini yagis
• 2 el trapped beam
• Loaded Yagi for 20m
• 20m half-size 2 element Yagi
• Mini Horse Yagi (portable 3 element wire beam)
• Short boom Yagis from Raibeam

  Moxons

  • Moxon Antenna Project Website
  • Lightweight wire moxon
  • Notes on construction
  • Trapped 40m moxon
  • Loaded 40m moxon
  • Trapped multibander moxon
  • 17+20m Moxon
  • Vertical wire moxon
  • Moxon beam notes
  • Moxon calc
  • Wire moxons

  Portable hexbeams

  • Portable HexBeams, readymaid
  • Hexbeams antenna parts
  • Portable HexBeams, how-to I
  • Portable HexBeams, how-to II
  • Portable HexBeams, how-to III (** Note: this one!!)

DIPOLES AND DOUBLETS

• Multiband Dipoles Compared (ARRL Publication)
• C-pole portable verticals
• C-Pole
• Compact rotatable dipole (Cushcraft D3)
• "Cobra" (folded dipole)
• Fan dipole I
• Fan dipole II
• Doublet antenna fed with ladder line
• Space saving dipoles from AlfaDelta (readymaide) (** Note: narrow BW on 40m->needs tuner)
• 10-40m in an attic
• Hamstick dipole in vertical configuration (*Note: My 40m at 30 ft hasn't confirmed this so far...no contacts)
• Nice OCFD
• Folded skeleton sleeve antenna
• The K4VX Linear-Loaded Dipole for 7 MHz ("ladder line dipole")
• short 80/40/20/15m inverted-V doublet ("NJQRP Squirt")
• G7FEK antenna: short 46ft/14m multiband 80-12m EF dipole
• Linear loaded dipoles

LOOPS

• Horizontal loop multiband antenna
• Horizontal loop antenna, modeling
• Portable Delta-loop 30-6M 300W or 1KW, readymade
• DIY 80 m spiral loop antenna

  Magnetic loops

  • Good read!
  • Magloop from Slinky coil
  • Another good read on magloops
  • DIY high power magloops
  • Good work, with construction details (**Note: mine like his 80m, from copper straps)
  • Magloop project report from M0UKD
  • Thick 4" loop for 40m by Alex PY1AHD
  • Nice read on Magloops, with references
  • Receiving loop
  • Another Receive-only loop
  • The Rockloop (QRP)
  • Foil loop from Japan
  • Some detail on building
  • Yet another square loop
  • Square magloop details, in Russian
  • Big loop, ferrite coupling, in details
  • another qrp loop made from RG213
  • Material - Heliax AVA Coaxial Cable
  • Multiply loops antenna
  • Copper strap for building magnetic loop - 1.5"/25'
  • Copper strap for building magnetic loop - 3.0"/25'
  • Copper strap for building magnetic loop - 2.0"/25'
  • Copper adhesive tape
  • Remotely controlled capacitor for Magloop tuning control
  • High voltage air gap calculator
  • Capacitors for Magloop tuning control

ZEPPS AND J-POLES

• J-pole and horizontal Zepp
• OCF colinear for 80m (RUS)

VERTICALS

• MFJ Wip 17ft
• MFJ-5904 RF Design box
• MFJ air wound coil for the telescopic 17ft wip
• On portable vertical
• On radials
• Modifying hamstick for 500W (**Note: the coil is here)
• 40-10m Twinlead fishing rod vertical
• Aerial 1/2 wave vertical end-fed vs proper dipole
• Instructions for EFHWA
• EFHW, detailed discussion
• Multiband vertical no radials (coax as a counterpose) (*Note: "3132 9:1 balun" is probably 9132 9:1 Unun)
• Linear loading for vertical antenna ("Flagpole antenna")
• Shortened vertical for 40m (2/4 height)
• Short helically wound vertical for 20m
• Short helically wound vertical for 160m
• Short (2m) indoor multiband vertical antenna

  Half-square (phased verticals)

  • One from Hy Power Antenna Company, premaid
  • "Using the Half-Square Antenna For Low-Band DXing" ARRL pub. 1996
  • Post on HS in QRZ forums
  • Half-square, half-square double and bobtail
  • Bobtail
  • Bibliography

WIRE ANTENNAS

• Wire Antennas For HAM Radio
• 40m wire antennas comparison

TOOLS, TIPS AND STUFF

• Unit Circle Coordinate Calculator
• Helical Coil Calculator
• Testing coax
• On photon model in electromagnetic theory
• Soldering PL-259
• On coax chokes
• Good and Bad Parallel Feedline Lengths
• Soil parameters
• Battery power
• Tree hanging tools and tips
• Antennas in trees
• 22mm Mirco Swivel Block
• Collection of PDFs, many on antennas
• Telescopic fiberglass masts (**Note: mine is MK-6 HD 43.3 FT Mast)
• On SWR/resonance I
• On SWR/resonance II
• On limited space antennas
• "In Practice" pages by GM3SEK
• On RFI in shared living
• MFJ-1622: Portable wip 2-40m
• Another portable multiband vertical
• Compact (8.5') multiband sticks
• 500 W Hamsticks
• Hamsticks: HS vs Procomm vs Workman (** Note: also read this)
• $150 Portable wip 10-40m
• $140 Portable wip
• $269 500W 10-40m portable vertical (Alfa Antenna Promaster Jr.)
• Short wire antennas (also read this post on ULTIMAX)
• Portable Tri-Bander
• Notebook antenna
• On SWL
• $2 4ft fiberglass post with wire clips

  DIY VHF/UHF antennas

  • 2m vertical
  • Quick and simple 2m grounplane
  • DIY 2m dipole antenna
  • Dual-band J-pole
  • 70cm-10m beams
  • simple 2m ladder line
  • Multiband antennas HF VHF
  • Spiral Tak-Tenna

    DIY Bandpass Filters

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYiM2cqUNk8
  • http://www.n1nc.org/Filters/
  • http://www.kg4jjh.com/pdf/Contest Bandpass Filters.pdf
  • http://www.kg4jjh.com/bpf.html>www.kg4jjh.com/bpf.html
  • http://www.iceradioproducts.com/filtersrf.html
  • http://www.morganmfg.us/>http://www.morganmfg.us/
  • https://www.dunestar.com/store/product-info.php?HF-Triplexer-Filter-pid6.html

Unsorted...

        HF Beacons, transmission schedule
        https://www.ncdxf.org/beacon/index.html#transmission

	Isotron compact 40m antenna
	 http://isotronantennas.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_4&products_id=4

	Hentenna
	 http://www.hamuniverse.com/hentenna.html
	 http://www.hamuniverse.com/6mhenk5uss.html
	 http://www.hamuniverse.com/iw6dfw%202m%20and%2070cm%20hentenna%20project_DRAFT.pdf

	Wire
	 https://www.amateurradiosupplies.com/category-s/260.htm
	 http://thewireman.com/index.html

	Antenna tuners
	 http://www.sgcworld.com/store/index.html

	LDG antenna tuner
	 http://www.ldgelectronics.com/c/252/products/17/49/4
	 the one with batteries: http://www.ldgelectronics.com/c/252/products/17/9/1

	Ugly balun
	 http://www.hamuniverse.com/balun.html
	 https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/dxe-8x
	 https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/dxe-pl259