Dipole — Two legs of wire.
The simplest effective HF antenna there is: two conductive elements fed in the middle. Cheap, easy to build, and genuinely good.
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Related words
- Rubber duck — The stock antenna on a handheld.
- Antenna — The thing that actually radiates your signal.
- VOX — Voice Operated eXchange.
- SDR — Software Defined Radio.
- Vertical — An antenna that stands straight up.
- Yagi — A directional beam antenna.
- Feedline — The cable from radio to antenna.
- Transceiver — A transmitter and receiver in one box.