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Introduction

Perhaps the most common antenna installed by amateurs is the VHF mobile antenna.  Many amateurs like to build their own, as opposed to buying something commercially made.

Additional information on this subject and related topics can be found in back issues of QST and the following:

The ARRL Antenna Book

The ARRL has an extensive catalog of books and materials related to Amateur Radio.

Articles

Note: Some of the following articles are in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. To view and print these files, you'll need a copy of Adobe's Acrobat Reader program. (Version 3.0 or later required). More information here.

• A VHF-UHF 3-Band Mobile Antenna (519,070 bytes, PDF file)
  QST February 1980, pp. 16-17
  Three bands - 144, 220 and 440 - on one stick, a triband J-pole.
  
• A Glass-Mounted 2-Meter Mobile Antenna (1,893,473 bytes, PDF file)
  QST April 1991, pp. 31-34.
  Technical Correspondence QST September 1991, pp. 41-42
  Want a no-holes, no-paint-scratching antenna? This easy-to-build glass-mount mobile antenna is the answer!
  
• An Easy, On-Glass Antenna with Multiband Capability (312,538 bytes, PDF file)
  QST March 1993, pp. 35-37
  A homebrew on-glass dual antenna system for 2-meters and 222 or 440, etc.
  
• Bicycle-Mobile Antennas (1,042,765 bytes, PDF file)
  QST March 1993, pp. 52-53
  Mounting an antenna for your HT on your bicycle.
• Glass Mounted Antennas
  What the antenna manufacturers have to say.
• A Simple Halo for 2-Meter Use (132,963 bytes, PDF file)
  QST August 1957, p.29
  Making a car-radio whip serve as a single-wire transmission line
• A Two-Band Halo for V.H.F. Mobile (1,438,612 bytes, PDF file)
  QST September 1958, pp. 11-12, 140, 142
  50 and 144 MHz with a single mobile antenna system
• An Inexpensive External GPS Antenna (493,850 bytes, PDF file)
  QST October 2002, pp. 36-39
  Save money, homebrew your own external GPS antenna from commonly available materials: copper wire, cream cheese or margarine tub, RG-58U…

Note:

Contact information for suppliers mentioned in the above articles should first be confirmed using TIS Address Database Search.

Bibliography (Members Only)

ARRL Periodicals Index Search - This database contains the QST index from 1915 to the present and the QEX index from 1981 to the present. For QST issues from 1970 to the present, and some selected articles back to 1922 (when construction articles featuring tubes began in earnest), identifying keywords have been added to the technical articles. By entering keywords (ANTENNA) or combinations of keywords (CONSTRUCTION ANTENNA VERTICAL HF) into the Title words: field, you may create dynamic bibliographies.
Technical article KEYWORD list. Hints for more successful searching

Suggested keywords for more articles like the ones on this page are: CONSTRUCTION VHF MOBILE ANTENNA

Web Links:

• HOME BREW 6M HALO Mobile on "The Magic Band"
  by Jonesy or Marvin L Jones, W3DHJ 
• Home Brew Dual Band Antenna  1/4 wavelength resonator for both UHF and VHF band

Article Reprints:

You can get a photocopy of any ARRL published article for $3 ($5 for nonmembers) for each article requested. Contact the ARRL Technical Department (reprints@arrl.org ), 1-860-594-0390) if you wish to get photocopies.

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