Jan 17 Speaker – KJ6ER on Portable Antennas

Greg Mihran, KJ6ER PERformer and Dominator portable antennas for POTA, Emergency Communications and HOA deployments.
The SCCARC meeting on January 17th will feature a presentation by Greg Mihran, KJ6ER, on his two homebrew portable antennas he has used for POTA (Parks On The Air)
activations over the past few years. His antennas are also ideal for emergency communications as well as quick deployment HOA antennas. He always shares his antenna plans for free in PDF-format with the amateur community.
The first is his PERformer (Portable, Efficient, Resonant) quarterwave vertical for 40M-6M leveraging a 17’ telescoping whip with two elevated tuned radials 90 degrees apart. This portable antenna has been in the field for more than five years and is used by over 1,000 portable antenna enthusiasts around the world for excellent continental communications. The second is his Dominator halfwave vertical for 20M-10M
leveraging a 25’ telescoping whip and 49:1 transformer on a Greg Mihran, KJ6ER tripod with a single linked counterpoise. This portable antenna has been in the field for more than two years and is an excellent DX antenna for global communications. He has also recently created a Dominator Vertical Beam with a parasitic .director in front of the driven element for a portable 2-element beam for 17M-10M.
Greg, an Extra-class ham based in Campbell, CA, has been operating HF/UHF/VHF since 1987. He
has been especially active since retiring in 2022 after a 45-year career in Silicon Valley tech
companies.

Links to KJ6ER publications:

Antenna Primer

Performer Antenna

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