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The document discusses larger portable HF antennas that are semi-permanently installed and meet requirements for portable operations. While some antennas are bulky with wingspans up to 10 meters, many are lightweight under 10 kg and can be lifted and supported by a single person. Two specific antennas highlighted are at the limit of portability - a 5-band log-periodic beam with a 10.3 meter wingspan that requires more than one person to install, and a pre-assembled quad antenna weighing close to 17 kg that can be erected alone but is still bulky and heavy. These "monster" antennas are selected for portable operations sometimes because simpler designs like dipoles may not allow for making enough contacts in contests or events.

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The document discusses larger portable HF antennas that are semi-permanently installed and meet requirements for portable operations. While some antennas are bulky with wingspans up to 10 meters, many are lightweight under 10 kg and can be lifted and supported by a single person. Two specific antennas highlighted are at the limit of portability - a 5-band log-periodic beam with a 10.3 meter wingspan that requires more than one person to install, and a pre-assembled quad antenna weighing close to 17 kg that can be erected alone but is still bulky and heavy. These "monster" antennas are selected for portable operations sometimes because simpler designs like dipoles may not allow for making enough contacts in contests or events.

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Equipment for portable HF operations


(Trans)portable HF antennas (III)
In the second table displayed below, I have listed larger antennas, mostly designed for a semi-permanent installation. All meet our requirements and belong to our scope even if some look huge. First requisit, most of these antennas display a high gain very appreciated by DXers. Only drawback it is paid by the size. The best are of course bulky displaying a wingspan that can reach 10 meters for wire beams. Plus side, many of them offer a lightweight below 10 kg, a load that each of us can lift without much problem (as we said it is equivalent to a 810m long aluminium ladder) and that can be supported by a relatively light mast, even a large pole with guy wires, hence their selection in this category. Some models however are heavier, up to 17 kg for the Degen's Baby Boomer Quad (BBQ) what is at the limit of the weight that an alone person can lift. If the BBQ can still be assembled and erected on a mast fixed at ground level by one person (working some hours for the first assembly), its installation with a rotator ontop of a pylon or on a sloping roof should require at least two persons for security reasons.

Wow ! Two examples of antennas at the limit of portability. They are however portable due to either their lightweight or their pre-assembling. At left, here is to what looks like closely a 5-bander Titanex LP5 log-periodic beam once all 25 elements assembled. Its wingspan reaches 10.3m. Not easy to handle such a size alone and to lift it up to the roof, but the task is not impossible. At right a few minutes after have opened the package containing the Degen Baby Boomer Quad BBQ 101520. It comes pre-tuned and pre-strung. If you are used to assemble/disassemble it you can erect it alone in about 20 min. That can't be easier ! But this picture is misleading, because like all quads, even shortened, the BBQ is bulky and its weight is close to 17 kg. Documents ON4AGP and Degen.

Why have selected these "monsters" for portable operations, do you wonder ? Sometimes, on holiday or when participating to Field Days and other CQ WW activities, a simple dipole or a short vertical does not allow
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