I built a portable 2m J-Pole out of 3/4" copper pipe.

When I want to play on 2m I just drag it out of the garage, and jam it in
the ground. It's less than 10 feet tall, yet with it and my FT2600 at half
power (25w-30w) I have had QSO's with hams on repeater systems almost 100
miles away. I turn the power all the way down to a few watts when working
local repeater systems too.

Go he http://archimedes.galilei.com/raiar/cactus.html

You don't say you're building this for UHF/VHF, so I am making an
assumption.

A great vertical for 15-40m can be found on the W2IK website. And it is
portable.

http://members.aol.com/realhamradio2/W2IK-ANTENNA.html

73 de KB9BVN



"WolfMan" wrote in message
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I'm Limited To An Antenna On The Front Of My House. Out My Window I Made A
Simple !/4 wave Verticle Dipole. Would A 1/2 Wave Simply Be Twice The
Length, Using 462/f Mhz, And Would There Be An Advantage With A 1/2 Wave
Over a 1/4 Wave ?
Thanks