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The End Fed Half Wave Antenna
My trusty 20M GP antenna, is a much-loved and proven favourite for operations away from the home QTH. Recent experience has made clear however that It’s not ideal for POTA, SOTA and other short term /P activations. It’s relatively heavy at about 2kgs, and it takes about 15 minutes to set up. Of course, it’s…
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Back to Basics – rediscovering the Dipole
Having decided to completely revamp the shack, one of the first questions to arise was what antennas am I going to put up? I’ve been using a 3 element tribander for 10, 15 and 20 metres mounted on my specially reinforced chimney, and variants of wire verticals on the lower bands. You can see details…