This handbook describes how to build 25 simple and inexpensive aerials for operation on the medium-wave broadcast band (550-1600 kHz) and on the 49, 60, 75, 90 and 120 metre tropical bands. Information is also given on band details, directivity, time zones and dimensions.

Table of Contents

Perspective: tropical and MW bands; aerial directivity; time standard stations; time zones; aerial chart. Safety: quarter-wave aerial; dipole and quarter-wave verticals; dipole and inverted dipole; inverted dipole and jumpers; cross-inverted dipoles; long-wire vertical helix; tropical and MW band long-wire; 3/2 wavelength on 60 metres; VEE beam; MW vertical ladder; closed horizontal loop for tropical bands; open horizontal-loop configurations; double open-loop for tropical and MW bands; little squared rhombic; multiple aerial array; space-saving dipole; indoor tropical long-wire; indoor tropical open loops; MW quarter-wave aerials; MW and LW long-wire; the basic beverage; long-wire/beverage array; MW atticladder; active aerials.