By Walt Hudson, K4OGO
Brought you by the ARRL, this portable antenna book is by popular YouTuber Salty Walt, K4OGO of the Coastal Waves & Wires YouTube channel. Reproduced from Walt's own design notebook this book offers portable construction and operating tips to get you making contacts in no time.
Generously illustrated in full colour, Salty Walt provides, as you would expect, great designs from where the action happens - right on the beach. Walt begins with the basics of setting up a quarter or half-wave vertical and then draws readers into more experimental designs like his own Coastal 20 or an end-fed vertical made with a slinky. The book doesn't stop there and you will also find a 17-five vertical, random wire vertical antennas, an off-centre-fed vertical dipole, a 5/8-wave vertical, a delta loop (with a twist), a vertical square loop, coils, whips, and other verticals to name a few. Every sketch, reproduced from Walt's own design notebook, provides wire lengths and practical attachment information, along with illustrative feed, balun, and unun options.
In addition to his sketches and wonderful pictures, Walt offers portable construction and operating tips, and just enough about counterpoise wires and ground to get you making contacts in no time. This isn't a heavy-duty treatise on maximally efficient antennas, it's a book for the 'true amateur', the ham who gets out with a radio to see what they can make happen.
Size: 216x279mm, 128 pages, ISBN: 9781625952226
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