Year: 2022

Portable antennas, EFHW

Portable HF has always been fun, recently I have joined the End Fed Half Wave club. I purchased a few EFHW 49:1 or 64:1 matching transformers and wanted to try these out at a recent LEFARS field weekend. Typically an EFHW will operate on multiple bands, so 20m of wire will provide a resonant antenna […]

EFHW out portable

I recently purchased some EFHW both 49:1 and 64:1 for some field-based testing. Working is ongoing, but the initial testing was good. I used 21m or wire, supported on a 12m spidebeam pole, with the other 9m sloping horizontal. Power was provided by V2L on the car The purpose was to see how repeatable this […]

Ideal Masts for amateur radio use.

The two masts I have highlighted today are the PU12 and the SCAM 12m. They both extend to 12m in height but have very different usage cases. I have included downloadable PDF guides for each mast. These are often charged for on ebay! If you found this helpful you may want to say thanks and […]