A lot of POTA hams use end fed half wave antennas because the parks that
they operate from have built in masts,i.e. trees, and they just toss a
line over a branch that is 30+ feet above the ground & use it to pull
the end of the antenna up to the tree. I use a 40 foot Spiderbeam mast,
and I
Marc,I will be presenting a session surrounding this topic at the HAMFest in
March. Feel free to come listen to my 50 years of HOA Stealth antenna
experiences. Some of the principles are the same for RV antennas.
You can expand from there with all the many mentors in this email reflector.73.
vna nano great low cost means to tune an antenna you have built.
Wire antennas are low cost and easy to build. Use the VNA Nano to tune it
End-Fed Half-Wave Antenna Kit This is a great all included kit and the write
up gives examples of out to set it up. 10, 15, 20, 40 band, add more
The real challenge in the hobby is learning, and doing what you can with
what you have. My home station consists of a inverted V at 30ft and my
antenna tuner makes it work on all bands except 160 unfortunately.. as far
as a VHF antenna goes, why do you say it doesn't transmit? If it's a good
I am a total noob. (new guy for the older folks).
I ordered an icom 7300 and want to do all the things i can with it but
mostly ARES, and POTA. so of course I am thinking about antennas, I
really like building antennas, however the one I built for 146MHz receives
crystal clear but does not
