portable power

W3FF Portable Dipole  ^pop - This is the antenna w3ff designed for his walking portable station. It is a dipole constructed out of the plastic plumbing pipe CPVC. There are telescoping whips at the ends of each side of the dipole, and these whips are adjusted to bring the antenna into resonance on each of five HF Bands 10, 12, 15, 17, and 20 Meters

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.

M3FVB VHF 8db collinear  ^pop - Build a 2m 8db collinear for portable use

Understanding Standing Wave Ratios SWR - We worry a lot about Standing Wave Ratio (SWR) in amateur radio since SWR is one indication of how well our antenna system is working. Most HF transceivers and antenna tuners have built in SWR meters. SWR is a measure of a transceiver’s output power verses the portion of that power reflected by the antenna system By Ken Larson KJ6RZ

Setting the SWR of Your Antenna - SWR (standing wave ratio), is a measurement of how efficiently your antenna system will radiate the power available from your radio. In simple terms, your radio would like to radiate all of its power, but can only do so if the other components cooperate

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

Experiments with a Moxon Rectangle antenna - An easy to build moxon antenna for portable use. A Moxon Rectangle is a two element beam, where both elements are folded towards eachother.

Transmitter Power, Antenna Gain, Coax Loss - Understanding relatio among transmitter power, antenna gain, and coax loss Trade-offs by Ken Larson KJ6RZ

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

All Power America - Generators, portable generators maufacturer

Commins Onan - Diesel Generators, Portable Generators, RV generators for motorhomes and trailers, Marine generators for boats and yachts.

Telewave - Telewave's innovative engineering produces the industry's toughest antenna systems. Yagi, Fiberglass Collinear, and Dipole models are available from 66-2500 MHz. Wattmeters, test equipment,rf power meters, duplexers, filters and cavities, transmitters combiners

Eimac - Innovators in Power Tube Technology

About digital modes - The digital modes provide a wonderful opportunity for those of us who would like to work on the HF bands but find CW too difficult and SSB phone prohibitive because of interference problems. The digital modes are easy to set up and get operating, require low power and a narrow band.

W2LJ's QRP Amateur Radio - Dedicated to QRP, Morse Code and operating in the great outdoors, this pages contains a description of a CW QRP portable set, also some stuff on the Buddipole and PAC-12 antenna systems.

HF Antennas for restricted space - Arrl document about invisible antennas and indoor systems. It is important to consider that few compromise antennas are capable of delivering the performance one can expect from the full-size variety. But the patient and skillful operator can often do as well as some fellows who are equipped with high power and full-size antennas. The "cliff-dweller" may not be able to "bore a hole" in the band as often, and as easily, but DX can be worked successfully when band conditions are suitable.

Rebuilt Power Vacuum Tubes - ECONCO has been rebuilding vacuum tubes for more than 30 years. Our commitment to quality, and concern for the environment has won us the acclaim of clients worldwide.

SWR Calculator - Computes the Standing Wave Ratio, given the power readings on a line.

XLZIZL by AC6LA - XLZIZL is an Excel application that analyzes the components of an antenna feed system, including transmission lines, stubs, baluns, and tuners. Calculations include impedance transforms, SWR and reflection coefficient, power loss, voltage and current standing waves, stress on tuner components, network attenuation (S21), and return loss Analysis results are available in worksheet format and in five different chart formats, including Smith charts.

Turbolog - TurboLog is a station management and logging program for the discerning radio amateur / hamradio operator. Besides powerful database and logging functions there is a fully integrated support for the control of typical radio station equipment, e.g. Transceivers, Packet radio, Morse and voice keyer, Digital modes terminal, Antenna switching, Acoustic alerting, and more

Cobracom - Oscilloscope, Realtime spectrum analyzer, Impedance meter, RLC bridge and signal generator for Windows. Is a Windows application that converts your PC into a powerful dual-trace signal analyzer (oscilloscope, FFT etc...) . Uses your PC sound card as an Analog-to-Digital a Converter to digitize any input waveform and as Digital-to-analog Converter for the signal generator. True 24 bit adc/dac 48K/96k/192k sampes/sec.

Spectra SDR Software Defined Radio - Power Tools, communications architecture wireless mobile middleware tool

Amateur Radio RF Safety Calculator - University of Texas Amateur Radio Club RF-Calculator. This is a main beam power density estimation program intended for use as part of a routine evaluation of RF safety compliance with FCC regulations

Safety: RF awarness guidelines - Although Amateur Radio is basically a safe activity, in recent years there has been considerable discussion and concern about the possible hazards of electromagnetic radiation (EMR), including both RF energy and power frequency (50-60 Hz) electromagnetic fields. This section summarizes what is now known and offers safety precautions based on the research to date.