10 Cool VHF Portable Antennas You Can Make At Home

Build a portable VHF yagi antenna for 2 meters. All you need is two rabbit ear antennas from Radio Shack, two CATV baluns, four feet of 3/4 CPVC pipe with one tee. (by K3MT)

A portable 4 elements quad antenna for 144 MHz, 9 to 10 DBd forward gain, 30 DB front-to-back ratio, and 33 DB front-to-side ratio (by N1LO)

Simple 7 element Yagi is ideal for portable operation. The elements can be removed and replaced in a few minutes. The 2.42 m boom will fit inside a car, the elements are made from 6mm solid aluminium rod. (by EI9GQ)

A portable VHF home-made Yagi-Uda antenna, that is extremely easy to build and very cheap. Moreover this antenna, while dismounted is just 1 meter long, and the total weight is just 100 grams. (by IZ2UUF)

The 2m portable pocket beam is a small 2 element yagi antenna (by GW0VMW)

A simple portable VHF ground plane antenna project used for ARES activities (by N5ESE)

Building a 2 metre 144MHz VHF Yagi beam antenna, designed for portable use. (by M0UKD)

The I DX is a homemade 3 element portable Yagi-UDA ante a for 144 MHz (by MW0IDX)

An easy to build moxon antenna for portable use. A Moxon Rectangle is a two element beam, where both elements are folded towards eachother. (by IK1ZYW)

Design for a 5 element 2 Metre beam with a forward gain of 8dBD and a front to back ratio of over 24dB. (by G4DHF)