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REVIEW: Hand-Carried QRP Antennas by Peter Parker, VK3YE

Posted: 04 Sep 2016 11:43 AM PDT
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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 onÂ*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 areÂ*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.

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