I have a great interest in antennas, particularly in portable/stealth types.
Recently, I decided to get parts for a AN/GRA-50 Antenna. This is a military version of a dipole with two reels. The reels are attached to either side of a center insulator. I had gotten two new reels via Ebay but could not find the center insulator. Certainly, any center insulator would have worked, but I wanted to make this setup the real mccoy. Anyhow, I found a gentleman who had won a bid for a number of these center insulators. I contacted him with the intent of purchasing one. Now get this, this fellow, who I never had met was gracious enough to send me not one but two. His name is Gordon with call KG4FRG. You don't see this unselfishness anymore. True altruism. Here is my way of saying Thanks.
My current antenna collections are:
AN/GRA-50 Antenna - Thanks to Gordon, kg4frg
A MP-1 Super Antennas - I use a camera tripod and/or a mic stand.
A slinky vertical. Using a floor to cealing spring load pole.
A Ventenna 40M-10M Portable Vertical
A commercial Pac-12
Recent purchase a SD Crapy Pole (16') for some 20M experimenting.
I'm using a 80M dipole fed with
cheap 300 ohm line from Radio Shack an ICOM AH-4Auto tuner.
A new addition is a Vertical Loop, looking like a rectangle, along the side of the house. Fed with the AH-4 tuner. Total wire is about 140ft. Two military mast of 22ft in height each separated about 50ft.
Here are some pictures:
Homebrew Feeder made with Gillette disposable razors.
HamStick Vertical with foil ground
Cheap
Clothes Line Spool dipole antenna
MP-1
with tripod
MP-1 on a mic stand
close up
MP-1 another view on mic
stand
MP-1 with tripod second
view
MP-1 with tripod closeup of
mounting with C clamp
MP-1 with
tripod mounting with C clamp
MP-1
with tripod alternate view with C clamp
AN/GRA-50
pieces.
AN/GRA-50 center
insulator.
Mast sections.
Screwdriver antenna closeup
on tripod
Screwdriver
bottom view on tripod
Screwdriver
antenna view on tripod
Screwdriver,
MP-1 on mic stand and MP-1 on tripod
Spider
Antenna close up of coils
Spider
Antenna mounted on stand
Spider
Antenna on CRT frame with ball mount
Some antenna links that I enjoy.
Antennex
Site
Commercial
version of Buddipole antenna
W3FF
Homebrew Buddipole Antenna
Spider
Antennas
Mag
Loop Antenna
MP-1
Antenna
Build
the Pac-12 Antenna
Build
the Attic Trap 10M-80M Dipole
