![]() The plans that Budd published has the coax line ending with the spade connectors. The length of the extended painters pole in this picture is about 10 ft. The following picture shows the Buddipole set up with the painters pole extended. The bottom two pieces are CPVC arms with speaker wire running through them, and connectors. In the middle are the two antenna whips, mounted in some CPVC with speaker wire coming out of the ends allowing for connections to be made to the whips. The black adapter changes the threads from PVC to the painters pole. To their right is the “T” component for mounting the antenna on a painters pole. To the right, the shorter coil set is for 15 and 17 meters. Starting at the top-left are the two 20 meter coils. Pictured first are the components of the Buddipole. I am fairly new to the HF world and I don’t have my home station complete yet, so these antenna were a quick and easy way for me to get started on HF. I use them both (not at the same time) for my main antenna right now, until I can get a full size dipole hung up, and coax run to the house etc. I made the Buddistick first, then later made the Buddipole. I like making things, and decided to give his antennas a shot after deciding that I might be able to actually make an antenna that worked following Budd’s directions. I knew when I started building my station that I wanted a couple of portable antennas. His plans can be found on his page located here. EFHW goes up quick, is easy to carry, and is reasonably effective.In a couple earlier posts, I wrote about making a homebrew Buddistick using Budd Drummand’s (W3FF) plans. Dipoles require supporting center and ends which can be a chore for a rapid portable setup. That's a level of "construction" which someone who is all thumbs can handle. Borrow an antenna analyzer to trim it to length. You'll generally have to cut a length of wire. It may be sensitive to noise, but if you're portable, you're probably not near RFI sources.īuilding an EFHW - You can certainly build the impedance matcher, but there are many available commercially. While RF in the shack can be a problem for an EFHW, you aren't in a shack when you're portable. You can't get much more portable than a coil of 24 AWG wire. I've personally used this on hundreds of outings. If you have an ATU, it will also suffice on 17m and 30m. Replace the matching unit with a binding-post-to-BNC adapter, add a 20 meter counterpoise, and the hoisted wire acts as a 1/4 wave on 40 meters. With a suitable impedance matching unit, 10 meters of wire will operate well on 20 meters as an EFHW. If no trees, you'll have to carry a 30 ft fishing pole, but they can be found and the collapse to fit into a trunk. If you'll be operating where there are trees, you can tie a rock to some cord, throw it over a tree, and hoist up a 10 meter piece of wire. 100 watts), and would work principally in SSB mode with occasional CW.Įnd-fed half-waves (EFHW) are popular with SOTA operators, and they understand portable. I would like to be able to use full barefoot power (i.e. Since specific product recommendations are off topic here, can you give me some guidance as to the types of antennas that might be suitable for this situation? The Buddipole seems usable just about anywhere, though, which is a huge plus. I'm attracted to the Buddipole system for a few reasons, although I wonder sometimes if I might be better with a longer dipole and some means of putting the thing up. The antenna should be able to be set up by a solo operator.Recommend a type of antenna, rather than a specific commercial product. I prefer something I can buy over something I can build partially because of my general building skill, and principally because of lacking time. ![]() Assume I have a tuner, although a portable antenna that can be made resonant on multiple bands would be a nice thing. Multiband is preferred, but I'm better off on a single band than on no bands.I don't intend to take the antenna to mountaintops (unless there's a road there :) ). By "portable" I mean it can be carried in a modestly-sized vehicle such as a sedan/saloon and hauled on foot a reasonably short distance.My broad (and somewhat flexible) criteria are: I'd like to get started doing portable HF work and I'd like some information on antenna possibilities. ![]()
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