# HF Portable

Today I finally set up my portable HF station[1], just in the garden
for a trial run. 

I had recently bought a pac-12 portable vertical antenna in
anticipation of doing some portable HF operating this year and had
been itching to have the opportunity to set it up. 

I did some experimentation across the bands using the SWR meter on
the rig with the antenna tuner disengaged. My results didn't exactly
tie up with those in the rather confusing chinglish manual and it
wasn't clear at first that for use on 10m band you don't need the
coil or 4 aluminium base rods.

On 10m the SWR is 1.0 right across the band, which was very
encouraging. I managed to get similar results on 20m and acceptable
results on 40m also.

Hopefully in the next two weeks I will have the opportunity to use it
on a field day. Although I really could do with ditching the lead
acid motorcycle battery in favour of a LiFePO4...

![1](gopher://gopher.icu/I/images/G90-portable.jpg)