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Cheap Portable Antennas

Ham Radio Crash Course Podcast

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How to Use a Portable Vertical Antenna to Make More Contacts

vertically polarized antenna. It is going to pick up noise more than that of a horizontally polarized antenna and being close to the ground. The advantage here is that because it's positioned on the ground is that you get what's called a low takeoff angle. So there you go. That's my cheap, simple portable vertical antenna,. Not cheaper than a build-in-a-wire dipole, for sure.

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