“Portable amateur radio operation is the reason I’m still in the hobby. There you go, I said it! Since getting licensed I’ve not lived in a house with a garden and inevitably my options for home antennas are extremely limited. Add massive noise levels across the HF bands and RFI to neighbours when I operate above the 20m and then you have all the reasons I started taking my rig into the great outdoors.
But despite this, portable operation has a lot to offer, even if you are a shack sloth and have an awesome setup. I’ll use this post to outline just what I have found through my experiences of almost exclusive /p operating over the last few years…READ MORE
The winner of the December 2015 QST Cover Plaque award is “Orthogonal Loops – A Medium Wavelength Receiving System” by Joe Ostrowski, KI5FJ. The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the most popular article in ea... Read more
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