[VHFcontesting] Short 70cm mount 70 cm yagi antennas

[Steve Kavanagh]

Mark

This one is almost 7 ft long and you'd have to build it yourself, but it might work for you.  For backpacking use, the boom and mounting clamp could probably be lightened up a bit more.  It is pretty easy to unintentionally bend the elements in rover use....backpacking would likely be worse.  The balun, as shown, has not been tested above 20 W or so - not sure what power it would take.

https://www.qsl.net/ve3sma/Folding11ElementYagiFor432MHz.pdf

WA5VJB also has a shorter (5 ft) 11 element wood-boom design at https://www.wa5vjb.com/yagi-pdf/cheapyagi.pdf .

73,
Steve VE3SMA