Some light antennae reading

[Josh]

The fine engineers at BBC have made available their findings in the realm of antennae (as well as other realms), peruse them here;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/search?query=antenna&submit=

I find the papers on beverage and ferrite hf antennas to be particularly interesting;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/rdreport_1991_12
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/whitepaper091

[Stretchyman]

Thanks Josh, the DIPOLE one is quite interesting too.

Thanks for these, some good theoretical info and real world factual stuff.

Ta!

Str.

[R4002]

I got sucked into the dipole white paper.  Great mix of theory and practical examples (both historical and modern), as str. mentioned.  I like how they didn't just stick to broadcasting but dive into land mobile radio and other uses in the discussion.

Very nice find indeed.

[Josh]

Almost unpossible to beat the efficiency of the lowly, forsaken, dipole. Glad you liked the white papers, what got me to the BBC site was a search for using small loops/short wires on hf, and this paper was right on topic;
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/publications/whitepaper164

[Josh]

Extending the range of a Discone antenna down to 3.6 MHz
http://www.sdrplay.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4109

This is nice for folks who don't have the ability or desire to deploy a more effective hf antenna than a discone.