Take your antenna projects further with next level portable antennas by Salty Walt, K4OGO. This sketchbook guides you from simple builds to advanced designs while introducing key concepts like gain, phasing, and beam-forming to help you work more DX and operate anywhere.
17 Next Level Portable Antennas by Salty Walt, K4OGO!
Take your portable antenna projects further with Salty Walt's Next Level Portable Antenna Sketchbook, his second portable antenna workbook. Start with straightforward setups like the three-element vertical Yagi-Uda and half-square, then tackle advanced designs like the bobtail curtain, portable rhombic, and co-phased vertical arrays. Along the way, explore beam-forming, gain, antenna phasing, and other concepts that will transform your antenna experiments.
No matter where you are, Walt’s approachable designs will help you work DX, experiment, and have fun. Build military-inspired antennas that get your signal out, or try a variation of the venerable rhombic using just a pair of poles and long runs of wire. For next-level operation, you’ll need the right transceiver. Walt shares radios from his collection, along with insider tips to help you get the most out of them—whether you’re running QRP or 100 watts.
Elevate your portable operations with Salty Walt today!
Antennas include:
- Three-element vertical beam
- Two-element quarter-wave vertical with reflector
- Two-element vertical Yagi with director
- Half-square
- Bobtail curtain
- Co-phased vertical whips
- Corner-fed cubical quad
- Portable rhombic
- Terminated end-fed V
- V-beam
- Tuned transmission line trap
- ARRL dual-band Momobeam
- Portable hexbeam
- Vertical Moxon
- Vertical phased arrays
- Portable magnetic loops
- Variations on the telescopic whip
Also available: Salty Walt’s Portable Antenna Sketchbook
Product Details:
- Softcover: 144 pages
- Publisher: The American Radio Relay League, Inc.
- Copyright: 2026
- Language: English
- ISBN: 978-1-62595-237-0
- Product Dimensions: 8 1/2 x 11 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.05 pounds
