Balloon-lifted Amateur Radio Antennas

_{by Jim DeLoach, WU0I}

I love to experiment with large, temporary antennas, and the largest of all are balloon-lifted antennas! Two of my balloon-lifted antenna designs have been published in QST, including:

• Balloon-Lifted Full-Wave Loop Antennas, QST, July 2007


• The Quick and Easy Balloon Assisted Low Band Loop Antenna, QST, January 2009

These articles are available on the ARRL Periodicals Archive and Search page. Just put in my call -- 'WU0I' -- to find these and my other articles. Note that ARRL membership is necessary to download this material.

This presentation, updated January 2022, describes the balloon-lifted full wave loop design in detail.

_{(c) Jim DeLoach, WU0I, 2022.}