Category: Portable

  • More Antenna Analysis

    At a recent first aid event, the event organizers had provided us with some HTs to use for coordinating medical care as needed. Unfortunately, some of their radio techs hadn’t been able to come to the event, so they were flying a bit blind and were encountering some issues with their setup. I had my…

  • New Roll-Up J-Pole

    So, now that I have a VNA, and I could see just how terribly my original version of this antenna was, I decided it was time to make a new one. I started following these directions from WD4R, aiming for resonance around 146MHz, right in the middle of the 2m band. However, once the antenna…

  • HT Day

    HT Day

    I’ve got some downtime today, so I’m working on setting up my HT. This involved some hardware and some software upgrades.