A $20 HF Mobile Antenna

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April 200033While returning home from abrief business trip one evening,I was listening to the chatter ona 2-meter repeater. As one hamextolled the virtues of a new generation ofdiminutive HF transceivers, several otherslamented the expense of good antennas forthe HF bands and 2 meters. I operate HFand VHF Mobile every day. On VHF, I usea roof-rack-mounted 5/8- commercialmobile Antenna that retails for $ the HF bands, a bumper-mounted homebrew Antenna that costs about thesame as the VHF Antenna added the bonusof a fun day at the workbench!My HF Antenna is a bug-catcher stylevertical that has netted me CW and phonecontacts worldwide using my ICOMIC-706MkII.

April 2000 33 While returning home from abrief business trip one evening, I was listening to the chatter on a 2-meter repeater. As one ham extolled the virtues of a new generation of diminutive HF …

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