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![]() KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog /////////////////////////////////////////// REVIEW: Hand-Carried QRP Antennas by Peter Parker, VK3YE Posted: 04 Sep 2016 11:43 AM PDT http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kb6nu...m_medium=email About a month ago, I got the idea to write a book on portable antennas. That seemed like a cool thing to do, given the popularity of portable operation these days. I even purchased a copy of the ARRLs Portable Antenna Classics, and after reviewing that book, I felt pretty good about the project. I felt that I could do a much better job. Ive changed my plans, however. After purchasing and reviewing Hand-Carried QRP Antennas by Peter Parker, VK3YE, this morning, Ive given up on the idea. Hand-Carried QRP Antennas does a much better job of covering this topic than I could, drawing as it does onĀ*Parkers 30 years of portable operation experience. The book includes chapters on: types of portable antennas, materials for building antennas, supporting portable antennas, feeding and matching portable antennas, and test equipment and accessories used with portable antennas. What I really like about this book is the hands on approach that Parker takes. For example, in the test equipment chapter, he doesnt say to go out and buy a field strength meter. He shows you how to build a simple one from a surplus meter, a diode, a capacitor, and an RF choke. There are also plans for a variety of HF and VHF antennas, including not only the typical end-fed wires, but also delta loops and beams. Loops and beams areĀ*typically not used by pedestrian-mobile QRPers, but after reading this book, they seem much more of a possibility than before. Hand-Carried QRP Antennas includes plans for the pedestrian mobile magnetic loop. Hand-Carried QRP Antennas is only available as a Kindle book from Amazon. Its a bargain, though at only $5 USD. The post REVIEW: Hand-Carried QRP Antennas by Peter Parker, VK3YE appeared first on KB6NUs Ham Radio Blog. |
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