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Aerial 51 is an antenna manufacturer producing HF Wire antennas. Their antenna product catalog includes portable, OCF wire antennas for HF bands but also QRP transceivers, and accessories for portable operations.Based in Germany

Homebrewing a Lightweight linked dipole HF antenna for portable SOTA operations

Italian station operating mostly in QRP Mode, contain some interesting QRP projects for portable antennas and antenna mounts.

An excellent and comprehensive article on portable HF operations with attention on selecting proper equipment

Portable solar power products and other solar and wind energy equipment

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.

A portable decoder for METEOR M weather satellite LRPT signal, available for windows and Linux

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.

An interesting article about amateur radio portable operations with excellent pictures. Setup includes a 60 watts of portable solar power being controlled by a charge controller, and a batteries powering an FT-897D.

A blog dedicated to portable operations by N8ZYA

MFJ-971 Portable Antenna Tuner Modifications adding a bypass switch and increasing inductance to tune on 1.8MHz

A 12v portable oscilloscope project

A portable wire antenna for the HF bands, made with a common speaker wire. In its natural form, the speaker wire acts as parallel feed line coming up to the bottom of the PVC feed point. From there, it's split into two wires, one heading out each side of the PVC tee.

Specializes in providing portable power solutions. Custom battery pack assembly is primary function, but also distribute batteries for many battery manufacturers.

An article describing equipment needed to make portable operations evenin winter cold times. The article is completed by a nice video describing not only the radio setup but even the tent and power supply equipment

A portable (15.5 foot diameter) NVIS loop for 3.5 to 7.3 MHz. Performs well at high and low takeoff angles, and has smaller footprint than most NVIS antennas.

Operating pedestrian mobile by G3XBM

N5ESE's Portable Solar Charger

How to make your HT last for days and get out like crazy

British ham radio antenna products manufacturer, base and portable antennas, mobile antennas, baluns, masts, production is mostly based on wire and whip antennas

A short introduction to amateur radio portable operations bu VKFAQ.

This project is a portable device used to automatically point a directional antenna towards an orbiting satellite. It takes all the effort out of little kids holding the antenna and figuring out where to point it. It allows students to talk through Amateur Radio satellites or download weather satellite images. Note: This is a complex DIY project for the advanced kit constructor.

An experimental prototype of an asymmetrical hatted vertical dipole antenna that can work on HF bands 20 to 10 meters band. The AHVD Vertical dipole is an upside-down T design

The Shoddytenna is a 160 meters band vertical antenna intended for portable use. This antenna takes just 15 minutes to erect on site, can be carried by hand and is ideal for local groundwave work.

A description and build-log of a cheap telescoping mast made from PVC pipe, string, and some misc mounting hardware. It is useful if you are going somewhere that doesn't have any trees nearby to hang something on.

Solar panels test for portable battery charger by YO4HHP

A small rig that you can take hiking and on business trips.

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.

Review of the Xiegu G90 20W HF portable transceiver capable to run CW SSB AMD modes, based on an Software Defined Radio

Summits on the air, sota. an exciting new award scheme for radio amateurs. the scheme encourages lightweight portable ham radio operating in mountainous and wilderness areas areas.

XieGu Tech manufactures quality amateur radio transceivers and amplifiers designed by BG8HT. Xiegu focus is portable and self contained transceivers perfect for your next SOTA, hiking trip or travel experience.

AA5TB portable station for 30 meter QRP operations

This is the blog for the M0BGR Amateur Radio Station. I am based in London, England but frequently go out mobile or portable.

Manufacturer of low cost RF signal generators and portable measuring instruments.

A simple portable dipole antenna for the 40 meter band using a total lenght of 18 meter. It can be used for 80 to 10 meters coverage using a antenna tuner.

Designed for portable operation, it runs on 12v, and has an OCXO-based local oscillator.

Designs and manufactures high quality, dependable power products.

Direct experience of portable operations of the FT-817 transceiver by Yaesu and the small power amplifier by RM Italy with 300W output

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.

Web site dedicated to microwave ham radio operations and portable activities by G8BKE

A portable home made wire dipole antenna that works on 40 30 and 17 meters band.

Stuff about amateur (ham) radio, with emphasis on VHF/UHF, QRP, portable and mountaintop operating.

A portable operation experience with a SpiderBeam pole during a contest, testing wire antennas, like dipole and delta loops configurations on 20 40 and 80 meters band.

Stuff about amateur (ham) radio, especially VHF/UHF, QRP, portable and mountaintop operating

Kirisun a fully indipendent company on the professional radio communications equipment incuding DMR, portable two-way radio and mobile radio and repeaters.

This is a project aboout compact and portable a QRP antenna tuner for use in the HF ham radio bands from 3-30 MHz, even if it's a compact and efficient project this small antenna tuner will not match any possible load.

An interesting article about a homemade LiFePO4 battery pack for ham radio operations, a 10Ah LiFePO4 based on Headway 38120 Cells

This is a detailed, technical piece, intended mostly for makers and more creative activators, who enjoy building and using their own tools on the summits. A multiband portable antenna tuner supporting 10W, small and light, suitable for SOTA operations

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.

A Multiband Slinky Coil for the PAC-12 portable Antenna, can be used also as a dual PAC-12 dipole by James Bennett