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Weather Resistant Field Antenna for 50 MHz - Photo construction manual of a portable antenna made with two heavy duty whips by buddipole. In this article has been implemented a 50 MHz portable dipole.
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Multiband trapped end fed antenna - A multiband trapped end-fed antenna can cover 20 30 40m bands. An option for portable sota operations were weight end simplicity are essential
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DIY magnetic loop antenna by Chamaeleon Antenna - A page describing how to setup a magnetic loop antenna with the DIY Magnetic Loop Starter Kit produced by Chamaeleon Antenna. Includes a video and a detailed instructions to setup.
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DIY NVIS Antenna Using a Mag Mount - NVIS antennas, also known as Near Incident Vertical Skywave antennas have a high angle of radiation. Something on the order of 60 degrees, to straight up to 90 degrees. A portable, easy to setup and cheap nvis antenna project.
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Portable wire antennas - This document describe serveral wire antennas, from the folded dipole, to the common halfwave monoband antenna for those who want to make HF portable operations in holiday.
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Portable Vertical Antenna - A home made portable vertical antenna, that with a single 1/4 wave counterpoise wire is possible to achieve less than 1.5:1 SWR on 40, 30, and 20 meter bands. It is basically a center load, shortened ground plain vertical antenna.
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QRP Link Dipole Antenna - Dipole antennas are some of the simplest antennas to build in addition to being very efficient and solid performers. I wanted to make a simple dipole antenna for QRP portable operation that could be used on multiple bands.
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Duoband ultra portable yagi - Tape measurement yagi. The longest part is 530 mm, easy fit to your backpack. Very easy and fast deploy. Great for SOTA and portable operation. Can be used in horizontal or vertical polarization. Based on DK7ZB design
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HF Wire Antennas for Field Day - Dipole antennas, vertical half-wave dipole antennas with impedence tranformes that can be used for portable operations. Some well worn antenna configurations are the easiest and loudest lash-ups you can try.
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Long Wire Antenna for portable operations - With the view to establish a quick and easy multi-band antenna deployment for portable and camping operations a simple long wire antenna with an earth or earth plus counterpoise arrangement with a 9:1 voltage unun including a tuner or simply with a tuner is one possible solution. With the 9:1 voltage unun and wire lengths suggested in the below tables the antenna should present non extreme impedances for all HF amateur band frequencies. This page is far from complete and represents the ongoing investigation into this type of antenna. Experiments to date seem to have raised more questions than obvious answers.
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3 Element Yagi Antennas for 144 MHz SSB-CW - A great and efficient monoband VHF portable antenna. The article consist of two version of a 12.5 Ohm 3 elements yagi beam antenna plans for the two meter band, a full sized and a shortened version expecially designed for the SSB and CW on 144 MHz.
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Portable Rotation - Portable Rotation manufacturer of portable antenna rotor and support systems including AZ/EL portatble rotor system, AZ/EL antenna position sensors, mounting kits for arrow antennas
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ADALM-PLUTO SDR - The Adalm Pluto by Analog Devices is a Portable self-contained RF learning module, based on Analog Devices AD9363--Highly Integrated RF Agile Transceiver and Xilinx® Zynq Z-7010 FPGA. Includes one transmitter and one receiver, half or full duplex and cover 325 MHz to 3.8 GHz
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Using the FT-817 with the RM K300P RF AMP - Direct experience of portable operations of the FT-817 transceiver by Yaesu and the small power amplifier by RM Italy with 300W output
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Sangean ATS-505 Review - An inexpensive portable radio that you can travel with. ATS-505 would be a good choice for a first-time purchaser of a shortwave radio.
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TYT MD-2017 Review - The TYT MD-2017 dual band VHF & UHF DMR portable radio review
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RadioSet-Go - Innovative QRP Radio Design - Portable, outdoor, trail friendly, low power HAM radio transceivers and kits for sale
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DIY LiFePO4 Battery power for Amateur Radio portable operations - An interesting article about a homemade LiFePO4 battery pack for ham radio operations, a 10Ah LiFePO4 based on Headway 38120 Cells
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Batteries for portable use - Batteries for portable radio operation are always an interesting subject for discussion. Review of some LiPo (Lithium-ion polymer ) batteries for amateur radio use.
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Homemade LiFePO4 battery power for Amateur Radio - Using portable battery power is always a challange when operatin amateur radio in sota oprations. This article is about implementing lithium iron phosphate cells (LiFePO4) in ham radio portable operations.
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