Chameleon MPAS 2.0 Modular Portable Antenna System

by | Aug 20, 2019 | Reviews

Chameleon Antennas recently updated their Modular Portable Antenna System or MPAS with the goal of it being the most versatile, high performance, and rugged HF antenna system on the market. I think they’ve certainly hit that mark with the MPAS 2.0. The Chameleon MPAS...

Coax Cable for Portable HF Operation

by | Feb 12, 2019 | emcomm

Quality coax cable can be a significant investment for your amateur radio station. A common mantra is to save your money on the antenna and spend it on the coax. For a certain extant I would agree with that, as good quality coax cable will give you years of use and...

Chameleon Emcomm III Portable HF Antenna Review

by | Jan 31, 2019 | Reviews

Today we’re out here in Northern Wisconsin for Winter Field Day and it’s a balmy two degrees right now. Next to me is Joe KD9CJX you may have remembered him as the Baofeng guy in one of my previous videos. But we’re not gonna talk about that. Today...

Portable Field Operations Presentation

by | Oct 27, 2018 | emcomm

A couple months back you may have remembered my video and blog post on NVIS or Near Vertical Incidence Skywave propagation. In that video I give a introduction to the NVIS method and perform a real world demonstration of an NVIS contact. Well that video was as a...