Dipoles are a classic builder’s antenna, after all they are usually little more than two pieces of wire and a feedline. But as [Rob] shows us in the video below, there are a few things to consider.

I've constructed hundreds of antennae in the past. Bowtie dipole arrays, biquads, parabolic reflector dipoles, straight up yagi, logarithmic yagi, log periodic, heliacal and simple 1/4 whips. So when ...

Lo and behold, the humble yet mighty biquad. The gain figure on one of these things is pretty impressive, you're looking at 8-10 dBi. The double biquad detailed a bit lower is about 2-3 dBi higher. A ...