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 antenna as you... A wire. As well as the lower bands although very noisy at times are very forgiving regarding antennas, so a dipole works just great. Unlike on the upper UHF bands where you need a 11 element plus yagi just to hear anything at any decent distance.
Ham Radio Wire Antennas ....or....Copper Wire Antennas...have great benefits:
They are inexpensive to build and make. or they're dozens of pre-made designs built by other amateur operators to choose from.
They are simple to put up in the air. (find a tree and your good to go).
Or if your still worried about Zombies, you can put one in your attic.
You can even really cheap out and feed them with inexpensive feed line...like ladder line! Wow what could be better?
Learn all about them here: http://www.wa2ooo.com/wireantenna.html
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