One of the most interesting and fun parts of Amateur Radio for many Hams, both newely licensed or OTs, is making and using there own antennas. This page contains some Internet references and information that will help you along the way. K8ZOA's Handy Reference Guide - The Handy Reference consists of two page PDF of an 8.5 x 11 inch sheet chock full of useful tidbits of reference data. It covers everything from the formula for capacitance to a wire table in a one page cheat sheet. Understanding SWR a QST article that covers the basics and a good reference. The Lure of Ladder Line - a QST article and good invormation for making your first HF antenna. SWR, Inpedance and Line Loss a converted web article origially seen in the MVDXCC newsletter. Need a portable HF antenna .. or something that is temporary but works great? Here is the WØSJS 2-wire radiator HF vertical (you may have seen this antenna in action at the SLSRC Field Day or the ARES SET), and as a companion component here is the WØSJS wire radiator calculator for this antenna system as an Excel file. NOTE: This antenna will work well on 40, 30, 20 and 15 meters but requires a tuner since some of the bands are resonating on an odd multiple of the fundamental quarter wave. WØSJS uses it very succesfully with a Ten Tec Jupiter with the build in tuner on both CW and SSB. KØBG Everything you need to know about mobile Amateur Radio operations (literally everything) N3DNO's on-line Antenna Calculator (for dipole, Yagi and vertical antennas) Vertical Antenna Calculator (another on-line Java calculator) J-Pole Calculator (with both diagram and Java calculator) Coax Reference and Coax Calcualtor (From Orchard City ARC in British Columbia, lists all the possible coax and at the bottom of the page you can choose the coax and then calculate the loss for your system) WØZGL Tuned Coax Calculations for Jumpers and Coax Runs (The length of the coax does matter) RF Savety Calculator (use this to determine if you have a RF safety issue in your shack) Gray-Line Viewer (check out the gray line for propagation)