The Rybakov antenna is a great choice for a portable vertical antenna. Rybakov is Russian for ‘fisherman’ - a connection to this ‘random wire’ being around 8m long, able to be deployed on a fishing...

UPDATED: 20250425 The End Fed Half Wave antenna is the King of portable antennas. Truly it is a near perfect match between portability and performance. They are extremely quick to setup and extrem...

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Welcome Greetings HamFam. This site has been created as “build notes” for amateur radio. There are so many opinions, falsehoods and bad information on the internet about pretty much every topic, b...