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160m portable vertical antenna - 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.
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The Arrow Antenna Portable VHF antenna - This article is about a 4 element yagi VHF antenna designed to be easy to be assembled and suited for portable operations
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A 30 Meter Sloping Dipole Antenna - This variation of the basic horizontal, half wavelength flat top dipole has proven to be a simple, effective antenna suitable for both home and portable use.
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Top Loaded Vertical Antenna for 80 Meters Band - Top Loaded Vertical Antenna 3,5 MHz 80m and a 14 MHz Trap for the 20m band. The weight of this portable vertical antenna is less than 1 kg, including the ground network. The weight of the telescopic fiberglass fishing rod is another 1kg. The rod expands from 1.5 meters to 8 meters.
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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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Trapped Dipole Antenna for 20-30-40m - An 20 30 40 meters trapped dipole antenna plan for sota and portable operations.
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Speaker Wire Doublet Antenna - 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.
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40 meter portable dipole for QRP operations - Schematic drawing and instructions for the construction of a simple portable dipole for use in low power and portable operations
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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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Portable Mast - This is a schematic drawing of a project for the construction of a portable mast that can easily be made with PVC pipes.
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ZR6KMD 20m Field Dipole - A simple drawing schematic of a portable field dipole for 14 MHz with dimensions in meters and instruction for setting up the antenna and to store the radial for easy transportation
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BOTA Beaches on the Air - Beaches On The Air is an award scheme for radio amateurs that encourages portable operation from beaches. You can participate from any country or region around the world. Our beach lists currently contain more than 30,000 beaches and aim to be as exhaustive and objective as possible, and are often based on official sources, such as environmental protection agencies.
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Aerial 51 - 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
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Omega Radio - Omega Radio is a Polish manufacturer of the QRP portable OMEGA+ transceiver.
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XieGu Tech - 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.
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Radio N9SKN /P QRP Field Operations - Personal web site by N9SKN about portable QRP operations with pictures of several portable setups and antenna solutions.
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QRP Portable Station Winter Configuration - 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
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NanoVNA - The NanoVNA is a very compact handheld Vector Network Analyzer. The NanoVNA is tiny and portable analyzer, and it offers a high performance capabilities with an embedded lcd display.
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IC-705 English Brochure - Download the official IC-705 RF direct sampling VHF, UHF, HF, D-Star all mode 10W QRP portable transceiver. Pre-release information in a PDF file all in English.
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METEOR M decoder - A portable decoder for METEOR M weather satellite LRPT signal, available for windows and Linux
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