13 Cool Ideas for Your Field Day Antenna. Post #1533.

13 Cool Ideas for Your Field Day Antenna. Post #1533.

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Accessed on 22 June 2018, 2110 UTC, Post #1533.

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I've always favored "homebrewed" wire antennas for the annual ARRL Field Day, which occurs on the third full weekend of June.  Whether I've opted to run my portable station in my backyard (because of work requirements) or chosen to help with the Big Island Amateur Radio Club Field Day site, I always have a spare DIY antenna in my van or under my operating desk.  Along with my portable multiband HF antenna, I also carry a "go-kit" with a HF transceiver, solar panels, deep cycle marine battery, an antenna "tuner", spare feed lines (usually 450 ohm ladder line), and a variety of 1:4 and 1:1 current baluns.  I've tried a few of the antennas described in this article and found them to be reasonably simple, portable, and easily repaired should disaster strike.

Thanks to http://www.dxzone.com and a few suggestions from the Amateur Radio Community, here are "13 Cool Ideas for Your Field Day Antenna."  May you make many contacts over the weekend.

"Field Day Antennas

End Fed Half Wave Antenna for 6 / 40 Meter

EARC

6m to 40m EndFed Half Wave Antenna project produces an inexpensive, multiband, end fed HF antenna matchbox that is quick and easy to setup and use.

Smithe Windom Six Band HF Windom antenna

K3MT

HF Windom antenna, cover 80, 40, 20 15, and 10 meters, antenna design

Vertical antenna for 20-15-10 m

F5ZV

This is a vertical multiband antenna made up of several aerial elements lambda/4 length, feeded with just a coaxial cable in French.

KN5L Field Day Vertical Antenna

This Field Day Vertical Antenna project is the result of many years of attending various field day sites and realizing that what was needed is a simple, easy to assemble vertical antenna.

40 Meter Full Wave Loop

N4KGL

A 7MHz Full wave loop antenna in diamond shape for field day operations made with three 31 foot Jackite poles

2 elements YAGI for field day operation

VE3RGW

A wire yagi antenna for 20 and 40 meters band suitable for outdoor and field day operations

HF Wire antennas

VE3NXB

About HF Wire Antennas for field day or any day a basic wire antenna article

JA7KPI Windom antenna for 40-80

JA7KPI

The total length of this antenna is 41m, height is about 11m, and diameter of element is 2mm. JA7KPI modified this antenna originally used as Inverted-V type of 80m band Dipole. Works on 40 - 80 meters band with acceptable swr.

Windom Antenna 3.5-30 MHz

HA3HJ

A windom multiband antenna project with pictures and diagram for the 6:1 balun

Random Wire Antennas

ARRL

ARRL article on random wire antenna, simple antennas that can be tuned for every band, excellent solution for field day operations

D3 Antenna for Field Day

D3+ High Performance Antennas for Field Day. This article describes versatile broadband wire antennas. These antennas will double your effective radiated power over a dipole, will be easy and inexpensive to build and install, and will be simple to match.

Compact Multi-band Field Day Antenna

NC4FB

A Compact size 80-10 m field day antenna offering a Low angle of radiation and very easy to build and set up..."

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