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Ham radio adventure awaits with these 15 portable antenna designs.\r\nWalt begins with the basics of setting up a quarter- or half-wave vertical,\r\nand then draws readers into more experimental designs like his own Coastal 20\r\nor an end-fed vertical made with a Slinky®. Each sketch, reproduced from\r\nWalt’s own design notebook, provides wire lengths and practical attachment\r\ninformation, along with illustrative feed, balun, and unun options. In\r\naddition to his sketches, Walt offers portable construction and operating\r\ntips, and just enough about counterpoise wires and ground to get you making\r\ncontacts in no time. Salty Walt's Portable Antenna Sketchbook isn’t a heavy-\r\nduty treatise on maximally efficient antennas, it’s a book for the “true\r\namateur,” the ham who gets out by the waves with a radio to see what they can\r\nmake happen. Like Walt says, “This isn’t the Mozart of antenna books, it’s the\r\nJimmy Buffett.”No seaside excursion would be complete without a visit to the\r\nlocal clam shack or oyster bar. Walt pairs each antenna with a dining spot you\r\ncan try whether you’re on Waimea Bay in Kauai, deep in the Big Easy’s French\r\nQuarter, or on the long Atlantic stretch of Nags Head, North Carolina. 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