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associated radio amateurs of long beach queen mary ham radio club station w6ro long beach california javascript is disabled please enable javascript on your browser to best view this site associated radio amateurs of long beach queen mary ham radio club station w6ro long beach california home about aralb club officers about aralb w6ro ham of the year terms of service privacy policy aralb bylaws club station w6ro ham license testing k6che repeaters membership friends of aralb contact the calendar field day 2026 the milliwatt the milliwatt archive meetings are held on the first friday of each month our next meeting will be on may 1st at 7 00pm this meeting will also be available via zoom the american red cross 3150 e 29th st long beach ca 90806 2319 between redondo temple may 2026 speaker greg mihran kj6er performer challenger and dominator portable antennas for pota sota emergency communications and hoa deployments the arc meeting on date will feature a presentation by greg mihran kj6er on his highly efficient 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 worldwide amateur radio community his most popular antenna is the arrl qst award winning performer portable efficient resonant elevated quarterwave vertical for 40m 6m leveraging a 17 telescoping whip with two elevated tuned radials 90 degrees apart for some directivity and gain this portable antenna with radiation efficiency over 90 has been in the field for more than five years and is used by thousands of portable antenna enthusiasts around the world for excellent regional and continental communications his 2 element parasitic performerarray provides up to 3 1 db gain over a single performer antenna with a 7 7 front to back ratio his parasitic array includes two performer antennas one as an active radiator fed with coax and the other as a passive reflector placed a quarter wavelength behind it the 2 element phased performerarray using electrical length cables to two performer antennas provides 4 25 db more gain than a single performer and up to a 22 0 db front to back ratio the performer nvis antenna provides high angle radiation for hf communications across 40m 6m into the skip zone between ground wave and first hop sky wave communications his challenger off center fed halfwave omnidirectional vertical for 20m 6m leverages a 25 or 17 telescoping whip and a 4 1 unun on a tripod with a single linked counterpoise this portable antenna with efficiency over 94 is an excellent antenna for both continental and global communications his dominator end fed halfwave omnidirectional vertical for 17m 10m leverages a 25 or 17 telescoping whip and 49 1 or 56 1 unun on a tripod with a single linked counterpoise this portable antenna with efficiency over 90 has been in the field for more than three years and is an excellent portable dx antenna for global communications on the upper bands his marauder moxon inspired vertical array for 20m 10m leverages an end fed driven element with two 17 whips and two band linked crosswires at the top and bottom of the whips to form a vertical rectangle for an average of 3 4 dbi gain and 15 db front to back across all five bands the antenna features both low angle radiation for global and high angle radiation for regional communications greg an extra class amateur radio operator based in campbell ca has been operating hf uhf vhf since 1987 he has been especially active since retiring in 2022 after a long career in silicon valley technology companies he and his wife bonnie have 5 adult children and 6 grandchildren he also loves to play bogey golf compose and perform original rock music and hike around the beautiful california foothills with his icom ic 705 backpack become an aralb member aralb club station w6ro aboard the queen mary donate to w6ro aralb s top ten frequencies for your dual band radio subscribe to the milliwatt contact the editor at n6hhr arrl net search for copyright 2025 2026 associated radio amateurs of long beach all rights reserved it is forbidden to copy or reproduce any text or photos without prior written permission header image by sandi sherwood terms of service privacy policy