Portable Antennas

About this book

The best portable antenna is the one you actually carry up the hill. This book builds the light, quick antennas that summit, park and holiday operators rely on, and shows you, band by band, how each one performs before you pack it.

• Complete builds: the linked dipole, the loaded portable dipole on a tripod, and portable end-feds for fibreglass poles.
• Every antenna modelled in NEC2: elevation and azimuth patterns, SWR and impedance on every band, one page per band.
• Band changes in the field: links, coil taps and whips, step by step.
• Safe, quick rigging: poles, guys and footprints for fields and summits.
• A side-by-side comparison of every design, so you pack the right one.
• Cutting lists in metric and imperial, written for UK amateurs.

Whether you activate summits, parks or just the holiday cottage garden, it helps you build a portable antenna you can trust.

Part of the Aerial Works series of practical antenna books for radio amateurs.