ANTENTOP- 01- 2019, # 023

R2DII Mini Dipole Antenna for 14- MHz Band

R2DII Mini Dipole Antenna for 14- MHz Band

By: Dimitriy Sarnikov, R2DII

I have very limited conditions for antenna installation in my apartment on the second floor. It is my balcony and windows of the room. I choose my balcony and begin experimented with different shortened antennas there. I cannot achieve success with shortened vertical antennas. However in the experiments there it was born Mini Dipole Antenna that works good enough. Figure 1 shows design of the antenna.

Antenna is tuned to resonance by changing length of the last antenna part - it is aluminum tube in diameter of 8-mm. The tube just slide up inside of the other tube in diameter of 10- mm. Any antenna analyzer or SWR meter may be used for tuning of the antenna.

Figure 1

R2DII Mini Dipole Antenna for 14- MHz Band

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