Multiband Wires

About this book

Everyone wants one wire that works on every band. Some designs deliver, some only half deliver, and the best known of them is the most misunderstood. This book builds each of them properly and shows you, band by band, what each one really does.

• Four complete builds: the ladder-line doublet, the G5RV, the ZS6BKW and the off-centre-fed dipole.
• Every antenna modelled in NEC2: elevation and azimuth patterns, SWR and impedance on every band, one page per band.
• The truth about "no tuner needed": which bands match on coax, and which need a tuner.
• Ladder line, balanced tuners, transformers and chokes, explained in plain language.
• A side-by-side comparison of every design at the same height over the same ground.
• Cutting lists in metric and imperial, written for UK amateurs.

Practical and honest about the compromises, it helps you choose the right multiband wire for your garden and build it to work first time.

Part of the Aerial Works series of practical antenna books for radio amateurs.