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What's your favourite antenna for portable activity?
IZ5ZCO:
I use a 5 m long whip... and you? :-[ :D
DF5WW:
Not /P yet but will start next spring. Have a 12m Spiderbeam Heavy Duty GFK Pole. Think it´s good for nice ladderfeeded antennas like doublets, vertical dipoles, up & outers or 4 x 7m tripple leg.
IZ5ZCO:
I will try also this windom for 10/20/40 meters...
KI6J:
My favorite is a 4 element monoband beam on a 50 foot tower on a mountain top. But I don't get that every outing.
A factor in my choice of temporary, portable antennas is that I don't want to carry and hang coax, and I don't want to have to lay down a radial field. So, I tend to use antennas that can be fed at or near the ground, and that have high impedance feedpoints, such as an EFHW, half-square, or bobtail. Another antenna I often use on 20m and above is a full-wave quad loop, also fed with a short feedline near ground level.
IZ5ZCO:
This Yagi reminds me the mast of an ocean going sailing ship... for this reason, Stu, I name you mainsail trimmer. :D
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