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Broadband shortwave base antennas traditionally fall into two main categories: Resistively loaded antennas which can be inexpensive and reasonably compact but inefficient at lower frequencies. Large elaborate and very expensive, non-loaded designs. (These can cost upward of $80,000 to purchase and install).
Hexbeam amateur radio antenna. A hexbeam, or hexagonal-beam, is a type of a directional antenna for shortwave, most often used in amateur radio. The name comes from the hexagonal outer shape of the antenna. It may also sometimes be known as a W-antenna, referring to the shape of the driver. The design looks something like an upturned umbrella.
Curtain arrays were originally developed during the 1920s and 1930s when there was a lot of experimentation with long distance shortwave broadcasting. The underlying concept was to achieve improvements in gain and/or directionality over the simple dipole antenna, possibly by folding one or more dipoles into a smaller physical space, or to arrange multiple dipoles such that their radiation ...
CBS used shortwave to support its Latin American international network, which consisted of 64 stations located in 18 countries and GE's KGEI opened in San Francisco in 1939, transmitting to Asia. [16] [17] [18] On November 1, 1942, all 14 private U.S. shortwave stations ended commercial operations and were leased to the Voice of America. [19]
A 20-meter-long T²FD antenna, covering the 5-30 MHz band. The Tilted Terminated Folded Dipole (T²FD, T2FD, or TTFD) or Balanced Termination, Folded Dipole (BTFD) - also known as W3HH antenna - is a general-purpose shortwave antenna developed in the late 1940s by the United States Navy.
VK3IL - Multiband end-fed 80-10m antenna - NEC2 model file of a "MyAntennas EFHW-8010" multi-band antenna. Other retail books (such as The ARRL Antenna Book, Marcel De Canck's Advanced Antenna Modeling, and others) also include antenna model files. Most free or retail NEC software packages include an 'example' folder containing antenna model files.
The 15-meter band (also called the 21-MHz band or 15 meters) is an amateur radio frequency band spanning the shortwave spectrum from 21 to 21.45 MHz. The band is suitable for amateur long-distance communications, and such use is permitted in nearly all countries. [citation needed]
Log-periodic antennas are arrays invented in 1952 and commonly seen as TV antennas. This was long before Mandelbrot coined the word fractal in 1975. [4] Some authors (for instance Cohen) [5] consider log-periodic antennas to be an early form of fractal antenna due to their infinite self similarity at all scales.