Chelmsford - the birthplace of radio
HF Antennas and MMANA
Wire antennas have several advantages over using beams at HF.
- They are much cheaper to construct, so don't require getting out a credit card.
- They don't require the expense of a large tower, with the planning permission issues such towers have. The antenna can be supported with bamboo canes and pieces of string.
- In the event such an antenna did fall down in high winds, it would not do as much damage as a tower mounted antenna would. In fact, in most cases wire antennas would cause
no damage at all.
- They can be erected in restricted spaces.
- They can be taken portable quite easily.
- One learns more experimenting with wire antennas, than one ever would erecting a large commercial beam antenna.
Here are some notes on HF antennas