Half Square Antenna for HF Bands
Antenna DIY HF

The Half Square Antenna: Low-Profile DX Wire for HF Bands

The Half Square has been quietly delivering low-angle DX gain to operators who know about it, while remaining invisible to everyone else — including curious neighbours. Shaped like the Greek letter π, it uses two quarter-wave verticals fed in phase through a half-wave horizontal section, matches directly to 50-ohm coax without a tuner, needs no radials, and can beat an Inverted-V by 4 dB toward the horizon. Here is everything you need to build one