Antennas

The back garden at GW4ALG is only 14 m long by 11 m wide, so the real challenge presented by operating on 136 kHz (about 2,200 m) is trying to make electrically-short antennas (i.e. antennas that will fit into the garden) actually radiate RF energy.

Click on the options at the bottom of this page for information about the types of antenna that have been used at GW4ALG.