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100 grams VHF yagi - A portable VHF home-made Yagi-Uda antenna, that is extremely easy to build and very cheap. Moreover this antenna, while dismounted is just 1 meter long, and the total weight is just 100 grams.
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J-POLE for 50MHz by IZ0UPS - The J Pole antenna is a good omnidirectional antenna that can be used for portable or fixed station usage. It does not need a ground, and neither complex feed systems. It can be homemade with simple material and in several ways.Article in Italian
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A portable three element 6M yagi - A homemade antenna plan for a portable yagi beam antenna for the Six meters. Consist of a 3 elements yagi beam design include antenna dimensions, with elements lenght and spacing.
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50:450 Ohm (9:1) Balun for vertical antennas - A page describing how to home made a custom 9:1 balun for a common portable wire antenna. The author suggest to use 4C65 or FT140-61 toroids instead of the common Amidon T200-2
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Beverage switch-box - A home made Beverage system for portable use. The goal was to switch between 4 single Beverage antennas without interfering on the other receiving stations.
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Dipole for portable use - Homemade dipole antenna for portable use
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20 40 80 Trapped Dipole - An homemade portable trapped dipole antenna for 40 and 80 meters band with an optional extension for the 20 meters.
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Multiband Dipole for 40 30 17 m - A portable home made wire dipole antenna that works on 40 30 and 17 meters band.
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A two dollar helical hf portable antenna - Here is an easily transportable vertical antenna for 20 meters collapsible to 4 feet that costs about $2.00 to make. This was created as a fun project to demonstrate how to enjoy operating HF in the field with a home-made portable antenna without spending a ton of money. Bev AH6NF (YL) made this antenna, tuned and ready to operate in less than one hour
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Portable magnetic loop - Home made portable magnetic loop antenna
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A Cheap Portable Mast Support - A homemade simple and inexpensive portable antenna support, handy for quick trips to the field and other portable operations
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HF portable antenna - 40 to 6 meters ^pop - Homemade 40 through 6 meter HF portable multiband antenna, an aluminium antenna construction article, with plan, drawings and photos
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Homemade Arrow Antenna - EA4CYQ portable VHF UHF Yagi antenna designed for satellite operations.
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Home Made Buddipole - A homemade Buddipole portable HF antenna project
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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 Z Match Antenna Tuner Project - A Home made antenna tuner for QRP transceivers. This small tuner is the ideal for portable operations with random length wires or whenever you have not a resonant antenna.
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20m 40m trapped squid pole antenna - An homemade portable vertical antenna with a trap near the mid point of the main element. The trap is made with 42mm diameter PVC pipe with 9 turns of wire on it
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