portable antennas

A VLF loop by IK0VVE - This antenna was born from the demand to use a loop for vlf operations in portable posting, avoiding the aid of long wires to stretch.

Portable yagi antennas - A 3 and 5 element portable yagi antennas for 2 meter band

6 Meter 5/8 Wave Vertical Antenna - The G3JVL 6 Meter ground plane vertical is a compact antenna that is ideal for portable operations. If needed, it can be disassembled into a very small bundle no longer than the longest element.

Baluns on Log Perodic Antennas - Some antenna manufacturers place baluns at the incorrect location in LPDA arrays. If we consider what the balun does we can see how the mistake occurs.

Beverage antenna tips - Collection of article and posts on beverage antennas, by N1EU

Inverted Vee calculator - Online calculator for dipole and inverted vee antennas

Eliminating TX RF Feedback Problems - Malfunction of transceivers due to stray RF pickup is a common problem, especially when using end-fed antennas, high-impedance feedlines, or a poor ground counterpoise

Receiving antenna for low bands  ^pop - K9AY loop antenna installed at PA6Z Contest group. This is a receiving antennas for the low bands (160m, 80m and 40m). Include schematics and info on a building the control box, preamplifier and low-pass filter

Log Periodic - MSDOS program calculates dimensions of log-periodic antennas by YU1AW

DCTL Portable Antenna - A Low -Power, Distributed Capacitance Twisted Loop , indoor portable HF antenna by Monty Northrup, N5ESE

Ultimate Portable HF Vertical Antenna - A light and compact antenna that is easy to build, and easy to find parts for. Band coverage is 60 through 10 meters.

KB1SG's Rhombic Pages - Great pages about KB1SG rhombic antennas collected by EI8IC.

Idiot's guide to antennas - A very basic guide to antennas concept. Explain the usage of dummy load, basic antennas like dipole o j-poles.

Common vhf amateur radio antennas - Plans and drawings of common amateur radio antennas, like jpoles, copper cactus, super jpole, omnidirectionals and quads

Adrian's British - A site mainly concerning British Portable Valve Radios of the 1950's

VP2M DXpedition to Montserrat - Seven operators from six US States will travel to the small island of Montserrat in late January of 2007 to activate that island in a most unique way. Instead of big antennas, and tons of equipment, this DXpedition will instead focus on lightweight gear and portable operations.

VO1DK Everett - Amateur Radio Antennas, Amateur radio & scouting, sailing and related links to each.

DXBeam - Located in France, DXBeam designs and manufactures a range of monoband, dual band and triband antennas, rotary dipoles, Moxons and Yagis

Myers Engineering - Broadband mobile radio antennas, vhf uhf antennas, commercial radios and scanners, rf coax cables and connectors

ICOMM Tele Limited - Largest Capacity of 200,000 MT for Towers & market leader in India with backward integrated rolling & manufacturers of Shelters, V/UHF, Patch Panel Antennas, DIAS & DWDM Equipment

Rocky Mountain Radio - Provide RF connectors, adaptors, antennas, accessories, mounts, coax, West Mountain Radio Products and Anderson Power Products available.

Meter Mate - SWR Graph Software - Meter Mate is a companion utility for your directional watt meter that allows you to calculate the SWR reading when the forward and reflected power readings are measured. In addition to calculating the antenna system SWR Meter Mate will also plot the SWR curves of all of your antennas onto graphs that may be printed out.

Parabolic - This program calculates geometry, gain, losses, efficiency, directivity pattern and other parameters of primary fed and offset parabolic antennas.

SV1BSX Homebrew Corner - Offer a wide range of homebrewing projects mainly for VHF UHF operations. From vhf antennas to preamplifiers, chargers and power supplies

External Keypad for FT-817 - An external keypad for FT-817(ND), for the serious portable/field-day contester/operator. Homebrew it with the free firmware and public circuit diagram. The circuit is very simple and takes power supply from the ACC port of the radio