Build a ham radio antenna

Many years ago this was the social media. The only social media Surprisingly its still alive with over 7 million members around the world being amateur radio operators! Why?   There is something about actually speaking to someone from another country who you’ve never met or seen. You can become quick friends, much much sooner then trying to figure out if your “friends” or “followers” are worthy of ever meeting in person. Many of you have already figured out, that these so-called online friends are never going to be invited to your house. So what value do these on line friends really have? Getting a thumbs up or a like is all you need for an daily (somtimes hourly) ego boost? Really, your missing the world around you. Once you talk to people around the world on ham radio, you will discover that they are not that different from you, no matter what language they speak or what culture or what religion they grew up with. Admittedly it is mostly an older generation thing. Meaning

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What are truly the best CB Radio Antennas you can buy or build? AAH, There are a zillion of them! Lots of manufacturers and even more misinformation about them. How could you possibly choose? Well lets break it down to what CB radio really is. CB Radio is the 11 meter band. It is only a very small slice of frequency mostly in the lower 27 mhz area. So why are there so many antenna choices? Well this is of course to make you spend money on XYZ's new antenna. They promise its different then the new super antenna they came out with last year! CB Radio antennas can be broken down into two segments...  Base and Mobile.  Period. You only need to know whats a good mobile antenna and whats a good base antenna. Like I said CB Radio is a very small slice of the radio spectrum. It should NOT have this many variations in design, and so many cockamainy attempts at extracting money from your wallet. Unfortunately most CB Radio information comes from companies trying to sell you CB r

Ham Radio Wire Antennas Your first Amateur radio antenna. Or the antenna you hide in your attic, because of the coming Zombie invasion of course. Whatever your reason for having a ham radio wire antenna, whether its your wife, neighbors, HOA ( I hate those), small yard, your renting, your in an apartment or safety reasons or any other reason. Rejoice its a good choice. The all time favorite Ham Radio wire antenna is the half-wavelength, center-fed, dipole . It is easy to build and it performs adequately. The dipole is the reference used to measure the performance of the other antennas.  It's the base line.  The dipole is a great reference point for amateur radio because you can actually build one  (yes you can) . And on some of the lower bands, most amateur radio operators will be using these. So you don't have to worry about pile-ups your never going to be able to break. There is also less competition on these bands since most everyone is using the same type of an