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    Operating QRP Portable and an Invisible (to the HOA) Antenna

    Feb 01, 2020 4 minutes
    BY JEFF PETERS,% K9JP

    QRP and the Great Outdoors!

    like to spend time outdoors and always enjoy visiting my local park. An element of fun I often add when visiting the park is setting up a small QRP transceiver and deploying a simple wire antenna for true portable operation. One of my favorite antennas to use for portable operation is an end-fed made from lamp cord or speaker wire. It is a simple design constructed from a 25-foot length of lamp cord with one of the two conductors cut at 25 feet and the other conductor cut at 12.5 feet. The conductors are

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