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| QST TBD | -- A Better 6m Hentenna
Performance improvements learned while developing the Double Inverted HF Delta below. A horizontally polarized 6m vertical, with azimuth gain and less ground loss. Better than classic Hentenna.

| QST February 2021| -- Design Your Own Coax Choke (Ugly) Balun
Easy, yet guesswork for many hams
QST Cover Plaque Award

| QST October 2020 | -- 2m Copper Tape and PVC Pipe Helical Antenna
Amazingly simple and inexpensive 2 Meter base station antenna
Ideal new ham's first home-brew antenna
Excellent radio club DIY meeting project

| TBD 2020 | -- Double inverted Delta No-Radial All-Band HF Vertical
30 ft, low noise, horizontally polarized vertical with the azimuth gain
Less noticable than a beam on a tower but similar gain
Excellent for Field Day and portable operation

| QST September 2020 | -- The Roostertenna, a Weather-Vane Disguised 2m Antenna (Second Model, see below)
You Neighbors will love it and may even want one themselves.
Your HOA will never know it's an antenna.

| TBD 2020 | -- The 2nd Law of Dropped Screw Dynamics
They have a mind of their own, like buttered toast.

| QST December 2019 | -- 6m Slot-Cube Antenna
50 MHz version of 2m Slot-Cube below
Remarkably small size
QST Cover Plaque Award

| Rev. 2019 | -- The Cavity Duplexer Book
Home-brew design and modification princiiples

| QST November 2019 | -- Frankenkey
2018 QST Key Competition runner up

| QST September 2019 | -- Rugged 2m Base Station Antenna
Ideal for remote mountain tops or just long life
Small compared to a J-pole, similar in gain

| QST July 2019 | -- High-performance HF no-radial Kite-shaped Vertical
Superior permance compared to equal size vertical with radials

| QST June 2019 | -- Improved 3D- Printed VHF/UHF S0-239 Groundplane
3D printed ruggedized ground plane antenna using a chassis-mount SO-239 connector

| QST March 2019 | -- 3D-printed Coax to Wire/Open-Line Connerctor Blocks

| QST January 2019 | -- 2m Slot-Cube Antenna
Copper pipe J-pole builders, eat your heart out
QST Cover Plaque Award

| QST May 2018 | -- Durable lightweight HF Antenna Traps from PC Board

| QST April 2018 | -- Ultra Simple Coathanger 2m antenna
Ideal radio club project
QST Cover Plaque Award

| QST March 2018 | -- Low Profile 2m Mobile
First Place ARRL 2017 Antenna Design Competition

| QST tbd | -- The Small Wonder 2m Stealthy Base Station Antenna

| Not Published | -- Wearable 2m Lincoln hat antenna

| QST March 2016 | -- 2m Slot Antenna Disguised in a TV Dish Antenna

| Not Published | -- Rain Gutter HF Loop Antenna

| QST February 2014 | -- High-Efficiency 40m Vertical Without Radials

| QST October 2013 | -- Cookie Can Portable Antennas

| QST January 2013 | -- T-hunt 2m Loop Antenna

| QST TBD | -- 2m 70cm Gentleman's Walking Stick

| QST March 2012 | -- Best Mounting Position for a 2m car antenna

| Not Published | -- Why Nets Succeed

| QST January 2012 | -- 2m 70cm Tape Measure Beam

| QST June 2011 | -- Two Small 2m Helical Antennas

| ARRL WEB March 2011 | -- The Getoutometer

| QST February 2011 -- Better Coax Traps

| QST March 2010 | -- Thinning RTV
Hints and Kinks

| QST October 2009 | -- The Quadrafiler Helix (QFH) as a 2 Meter Base Station Antenna
QST Cover Plaque Award

| QST July 2009 | -- Homebrew Coaxial Dipole for VHF or UHF

| QST October 2009 | -- Go Portable with an MFJ-1775 Rotatable Mini-dipole
Hints and Kinks

| QST March 2007 | -- Compact 40 Meter HF Magnetic Loop for Your RV

| QST August 2005 | -- A Weather-Vane Antenna for 2 Meters

| WORLD RADIO May 2004 | -- An Efficient Portable Dipole from HF Mobile Whips

| WORLD RADIO January 2004 | -- An Efficient HF Antenna for your RV

| 73 Magazine July 1996 | -- Garbage in -- No Garbage Out
137 MHz Cavity for APT Satellites

| ELEMENTARY ELECTRONICS May 1976 | -- You Can Custom Build Transformers

| ELEMENTARY ELECTRONICS May 1975 | -- Dickey Flasher
(Neon Party Novelty)

| POPULAR ELECTRONICS June 1975 | -- Active Filter Sharpens CW Reception