You would construct a counterpoise antenna wire 11.5 inch for VHF, 6.5 for UHF and about 19.5 inches for an OK performing dual band VHF/UHF radio. Normally with a handheld radio the counterpoise ...

[G3OJV] knows the pain of trying to operate a ham radio transmitter on a small ... is a toroid with a few turns of wire. The proposed antenna is an end-fed dipole fed with the unun.

Members and friends of the Parkersburg Amateur Radio Klub will observe the centennial of the International Amateur Radio Union with “Ham Radio Open House” on Friday, April 18, at the Grand Central ...

The embedded, two-wire antennas were apparently pretty weak and had a bad habit of dropping signal. I remember the radio in my dad's Suburban going out every time he drove under an overpass.