portable operating

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.

The Battle Creek Special Antenna - This antenna is often mentioned as secret weapon for LF bands (160, 80 & 40 m) operating at many DXpeditions. It is not commercially available but may be loaned to the expedition staff. It was brought to Ham Radio scene by George Guerin, K8GG, Charlie Dewey, W0CD and George Taft, W8UVZ

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.

"Halfer" End-Fed Halfwave Antenna  ^pop - End-Fed Half-Wave Antenna for the 7 or 10 MHZ amateur bands intended to provide a very simple to erect yet effective portable QRP antenna.

Antenna Impedance measurement - When experimenting on an antenna it's often important to determine its feedpoint impedance at various frequencies across the operating band. It's easy enough to measure SWR, but sometimes we need to know more detail than this

144-430 portable j-pole antenna  ^pop - A portable dual band j-pole antenna

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.

An End Fed Half Wave Antenna - This end fed type of antenna was marketted in the UK and is a useful system for the portable set-up. Being a half wave, no radials or counterpose wires are needed.

Portable Wire Antenna - W4ZT used this antenna for Field Day and other portable applications. He built them for all bands between 160 meters and 6 meters. You can make them easily using whatever wire you have available and make the insulators from scrap plastic

Collins Radio Association - This site was established to encourage hams, especially the newcomer, to share the enjoyment that comes from owning and operating Collins

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.

KH6 - Hawaii Sea Q Maui - Hawaii, maui, Operating only as a ham radio station rental. Located in a private home, accommodating only ham operators. Two towers, two tribanders, one 40 2 el, one WARC. A FT1000MP, TS-940S, FT100, HF only no 6 mtrs No linear operations.

The Texas DX Society - The Texas DX Society is an organization of radio amateurs in Houston, Texas who have a primary interest in DX chasing and contest operating on HF, VHF, and UHF.

W7DIN Desert Intertie Network - privately owned network of OPEN, Linked Repeaters operating in the Yuma area under the Club Callsign of W7DIN.

136KHz portable station - 136kHz portable station project by PA4VHF, Dick

PSK31 Overview - Brief overview of PSK31 and basic operating techniques.

Voice Repeater Basics - Repeater operating is one of the most popular facets of amateur radio

AO-27 Satellite page - About operating the AO-27 satellite

Cooke International - Original Test Equipment Operating Service Manuals.

Aether - Aether is an ham radio logging for the Mac. Aether gives hams logging software that is as powerful, easy to use, and good looking as the operating system it runs on. Designed from the ground-up using Apple’s Cocoa, Aether supports the latest Mac OS X technologies, and provides the experience that Mac users expect.

PSK08 - G4JNT - PSK08 Software for the 56002EVM. PSK08 is a data communications mode identical in operation to PSK31, but operating at one quarter the speed, ie. approximately 8 symbols per second.

MacTNC - MacTNC is simple, configurable terminal software used by amateur (ham) radio operators to control a TNC (terminal node controller). MacTNC performs most of the same functions of other terminal software, but includes buttons for standard commands, and allows the user to configure additional buttons for special purposes. MacTNC works only user Mac OS X because it relies on Unix components of the current operating system.

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