Portable Antennas - 50 Aerials 80m-70cm - Book for Amateur / Ham radio

Name: Portable Antennas - 50 Aerials 80m-70cm - Book for Amateur / Ham radio
Brand: RSGB

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Portable Antennas\n50 Antennas covering 80m-70cm\nEdited by Steve Telenius-Lowe, PJ4DX\n\nPortable operating has never\n been as popular as it is today, thanks to the many excellent modern, \nsmall and lightweight transceivers that are available. But, indoors or \noutside, any station is only as good as its antenna, and that is where \nthis book comes in. Portable Antennas for Everyone is broken into \nsections covering the main types of antenna. Specific designs from \naround the world are included, starting with a fibreglass pole and a \nsimple 10m length of wire attached to make a quarter-wave vertical \nantenna for 7MHz. Portable Antennas for Everyone continues into \nverticals designed specifically for use by the ocean and that provide a \nsuper-low angle of radiation of just 6 or 7 degrees above the horizon. \nThe book describes how to make a vertical dipole array (VDA) and there \nis some good advice on kite-supported verticals. There are also designs \nfor HF dipoles, doublets