There’s an old saying in the amateur radio community ... but the antenna he’s using caught our eye as it’s described as an end-fed half-wave, but it has both a half-wave and quarter-wave ...

But there’s a financial component to it, too; high-frequency (HF) band privileges come both at the price of learning enough about radio to ... the end-fed half-wave antenna.

A so-called random wire antenna is an end fed antenna. One end goes straight into the rig, often with no feedline, and the other end in the air attached to something as high as you can find, as ...