portable antennas

A portable 2-element VHF yagi  ^pop - 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.

Portable Yagi for 144MHz - Simple 7 element Yagi is ideal for portable operation.

Roll-up & Copper JPole antennas - Roll-up and Copper Pipe J-Pole Antennas for 144 Mhz.

Mobile Helix Antennas for HF - Normal mode helix antennas for HF mobile. Photos andn plan for a 20 meters mobile helix antenna by N2MH

Construction Practices - The construction of light weight structures that support wire antennas requires some definite insight into the behavior of the materials

Copper J-Pole Antennas - Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club, article edited by Rory Eikland, KG6HCU and Ken Larson, KJ6RZ, they have had excellent experience building and using J-Pole antennas, and share their experience on planning VHF and UHF Jpole antennas.

The Ribbon Cable Loop - The portable 3 foot ribbon cable loop

Effective HF Mobile Antennas - Effective HF Mobile Antennas Keith WB2VUO, explains difficulties on gaining antennas efficiency on lower bands with mobile antennas.

A Magnetic Loop antenna for 7-21 mhz - If you find external wire antennas obtrusive for amateur radio or short wave listening, then this is the antenna for you, is just 1 meter diameter

Travel loop antennas Priority listing - PA11019 Travel loop antennas, these antennas cover 6.300 to 29.200 mHz , handle 35 Watts and have a packing size of 43 cm, ideal for fieldwork, or mobile operations.

Roofspace Antennas  ^pop - How to build a roofspace antennas and get them to work. Explains how to build an effective antenna in your roof. Very interesting if you don't have possibilities to setup an antenna in your roof.

Quad or Loop antenna - Information about quad and loop antennas, matching tips, differences on polarization and impedence by PA0FRI

Antenna Selection Made Easy - This page will help you answer important questions about antenna selection before you talk to a supplier. After reading this paper, you should be able to better determine the most important parameters you need to know for your antenna selection criteria.

VHF/UHF Yagi Antenna Design  ^{updated  pop} - Design your vhf yagi antenna online, a JavaScript enhanced web page that implements the design of an antenna in the VHF, UHF by K7MEM

Transmitting Antennas For HF Broadcasting - This paper discusses a number of common used HF transmitting antenna systems and corresponding reference antenna codes. The latter was developed in close consultation with regional coordination groups ABU-HFC, HFCC-ABSU.

How create simple dipoles - How to create a simple but effective half wave dipole, illustrated instrucions on how to build wire antennas

Islands, Castles and Portable Operations - Island DXpedition and portable operations, including present, up-and-coming operations, IOTA, NON-IOTA, IOSA, IIA, ILIA, DIB, Lighthouse, and other Island Award Program operations

Sauder Electronics - Manufacture of microphones, cables, antennas, antenna mours, connectors and other accessories

Autotena - Antenna manufacturer in Taiwan, products range are RF communication antennas ( CB, VHF, UHF, Dual band, Base Station, Marine, GPS,GSM, PCS, Cellular, DVB-T ) , Amplifiers , Mounting Kit ,Accessories & Related products.

Alpha Delta Communications - Manufacturers and distributors of coaxial surge protectors, coaxial switches, HF fixed wire antennas

Yaesu FT-817 Portable QRP Transceiver - The FT-817 is a small 5W MF/HF/VHF/UHF transceiver with internal batteries. Here is an assortment of technical information K6XX put together about this rig that might interest you.

GI Joe's radio electronics  ^updated Priority listing - Dealer for Cb radios, Cb antenna & accessories Galaxy radio, Cobra cb radio, Ranger, Texas Star, Palomar. Police scanner, radar detector, GPS, GMRS, FRS, Wilson cellular amplifier & antennas. Owners manuals, schematics and links.

AM Loop Antenna Calculator - Java script calculator for AM loop antennas

Ferrite on Reducing RFI - Using ferrite to reduce radio frequency interference with your PC monitor or antennas with your receivers or transceivers.

QRM and noise reduction Priority listing - You will find on these pages my experiences and results on antennas and local/non-local QRM/noise reduction. Using a broadband vertical active magnetic loop and a home made / designed broadband amplifier. Two vertical magnetic Alford loops are used in an array. Analog and Digital Signal Processing and a dual phase coherent Software Defined Radio (SDR) are used. By PA0SIM