Ham Radio All Portable Discussion Zone
Aug 30, 2026 · 58 min · 11 segments
Peter HB9EBE has been building his own antenna matching units since getting back into ham radio about 10 years ago, and his approach is about as minimal as it gets. His go-to field tuner is a homebrew…
Well, so ultra portable is your philosophy, ultra light, you talked about, you know, you try to go and get out and operate somewhere whenever you're traveling.
And then I guess, do you do it at home too, at all?
I do it at home too.
I can show you my home setup if you want.
Sure.
Let me just see.
Sharing is not turned on, it says, for this meeting.
No, let me look.
I'm sending a request.
How about now? OK, that looks OK.
I don't know.
Do you see it now or not? I'm not.
Let me just do this again.
OK.
Can you see it now?
I see it now,
yes.
Okay, so this is basically my home setup.
This is a QMX transceiver, which probably many of you know if you're into QRP and SOTA, which I built a while ago.
And I'm using a little Z match that I built.
So basically, it doesn't take a lot of, it doesn't take a lot of space and is very easy to carry around any time.
Oh, very nice.
That's great.
So then home and works, home and travel is the same then? Same gear?
Well, so ultra portable is your philosophy, ultra light, you talked about, you know, you try to go and get out and operate somewhere whenever you're traveling.
And then I guess, do you do it at home too, at all?
I do it at home too.
I can show you my home setup if you want.
Sure.
Let me just see.
Sharing is not turned on, it says, for this meeting.
No, let me look.
I'm sending a request.
How about now? OK, that looks OK.
I don't know.
Do you see it now or not? I'm not.
Let me just do this again.
OK.
Can you see it now?
I see it now,
yes.
Okay, so this is basically my home setup.
This is a QMX transceiver, which probably many of you know if you're into QRP and SOTA, which I built a while ago.
And I'm using a little Z match that I built.
So basically, it doesn't take a lot of, it doesn't take a lot of space and is very easy to carry around any time.
Oh, very nice.
That's great.
So then home and works, home and travel is the same then? Same gear?
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