Everything Ham Radio Podcast

Hello everybody and welcome back to the Everything Ham Radio Podcast! In this episode we are going to talk about Portable Stations. While the episodes this quarter have been about "Things to do on HF", this topic is more of a general ham radio topic and ties into our mini theme of Field Day which is coming up this weekend. For more information about Field Day check out episode 20, and check out episode 11 where we talked about Go-Packs. When you think about a portable station, or really any stations, there are three main components that you must have, a radio, an antenna and a source of power. Depending on the size of your portable station determines the size of equipment that you will need or want. If you are looking for something to use for SOTA or for a go pack, you will probably want smaller antennas, smaller low power radios and a lighter power source. If you are talking a setup for things like Field Day or a QSO party or even some public service event, you might want something a little bigger. We are go