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Portable Radio
Topic Started: Tuesday, 6. December 2016, 12:35 (351 Views)
Airburst
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26 Charlie Tango 2023

Hello

Looking to do my Foundation shortly ,i dont have a shack but prefare portable work . I have had the Yaseu FT857D as one suggestion any suggestions would be welcome.

Cheers
Rob
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GaryWilson
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26 Charlie Tango 1836

Hi Robert, have a look at Elecraft's offering http://www.elecraft.com/ also the Xiegu X108g https://www.sinotel.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=20&products_id=183&zenid=1r3dgocnmoe1stquvsv3gsk130

73s Gary.
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Andy591/P
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26 Charlie Tango 1591

HI Robert.
1stly good luck with your Foundation, plenty of free test papers online, practice them and you will breeze the Foundation.
As for Portable, have a price tag to stick to, any Ham radio will do fine. best to buy from someone you know as they will have looked after it and there should be no faults with it. Antenna size and weight starts creeping into a portable station. A very easy set up is a quarter wave vertical, 20 mtr band is a good one to start with. Look online at quarter wave antenna calculator ,
www.csgnetwork.com/antennagpcalc.htm is a good one and I have used many times. Fibre glass fishing pole at 5 mtrs with a 5 mtr length of wrie up it, 4 more lengths spaced out at 90 degrees on the ground, connected into electrical chocky blocks. There is plenty of info on this. keep it as simple as possible. good luck with what ever you do.
Andy 591/P
Designing and building even bigger Antennas. Hoping for some good DX, waiting for solar minimums to fade away.
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