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Win a Buddistick™ Deluxe Package!
27 March 2011 | by 
AmateurRadio.com & Buddipole Antennas have teamed up to give away a Buddistick™ Deluxe Package to a very lucky ham!
(a 175 USD value!)
Designed as a multi-band, portable antenna for 40m – 10m, the Buddistick™ is an excellent performer with any rig up to 250 watts. It works exceptionally well with the FT 817, Elecraft K2 and KX1, IC-703 and other QRP rigs. The Buddistick™ comes packaged in a compartmentalized 1000 denier cordura portfolio bag.
Prize
Buddistick™ Deluxe Package w/ black whips
(winner pays shipping costs from USA)
The Buddistick Deluxe Package contains the following:
Buddistick Antenna, Vertical Antenna Clamp,
2 Telescopic Whips, and 3 Coil Clips
(camera tripod or other mounting platform not included)
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Eligibility
All licensed Amateur Radio Operators worldwide
How to Enter
It’s simple!
Leave a comment to this post.
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Entry Duration
Only 1 week!
You may enter only once from
27 March 2011 19:00 UTC
to
3 April 2011 19:00 UTC
(multiple entries from the same entrant will be discarded)
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3 April 2011
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Sign me up for the prize!
Thanks for the link to this site. I will check it out
Great contest, great website! Thanks again.
What a great idea. 73
Sounds like a great contest. I sure could use it.
73
Clifton
That’s an excellent package for hilltopping and other in the field QRP ops! Thanks for the interesting newsletter.
I do portable satellite operations, and it might be fun to try HF.
Alan
WA4SCA
Oh boy do I need that Buddistick. I am ordering my first HF transceiver with my tax refund money and I won’t have any money to spare for an antenna until this summer.
I’m new to the hobby and would love to have the antenna. Please sign me up.
Thanks for the opportunity.
73,
Joe, W2DRS
Sign me up……….. I’ll be glad to pay shipping costs!! 73
Looks great
This would be cool for field day! Thanks!
something collapsible the nimby’s by me cant complain about
Fantastic prize, put me down for that one!
Nice prize.
I could certainly use this antenna.
Thanks! I would use it to replace my current portable antenna.
would be great to pack on my motorcycle. sign me up
Thanks for the contest.
I’m always looking fro something that doubles as a clothesline and antenna!
It would be nice to be capable of portable operation
Would love to pair this up with my FT-897D. Currently, don’t have HF capability. Thanks for offering up this great prize.
Argonaut V and this would be fantastic
another fun contest!
As I travel the coasts and mountains of the Pacific North West this would be a great addition to my ability to transmit to the world!
I’m in!
One thing I would definitely do with the Buddipole antenna is use it for my field day station. Other portable applications come to mind, but Field Day is a definite use for it.
Once again a great contest and super articles too.
Just as I figured… the video looks like a snow job!
Buddipoles and Buddisticks are great antennas for operating HF Walking Portable.
73 de Demetre SV1UY
I’m within 6 months of retirement. I have waited a lifetime for “portable / dxpedition” travel. I want a Buddipole along for the trip. Whether it is POTA, Summit operations, IOTA or just working outside.
Please enter me in the free antenna giveaway.
Thanks Jim
Now this would be fun!!
thanks for the offer to win such a nice prize
nice antenna for a spot of remote dxing, whilst taking in the wildlife..
Like to win it. My wire antenna is down and I am at home recuperating from quadruple bypass surgery. Need a new sky hook!!
Just used a Buddipole during CQ WW WPX – I am a Buddipole believer!
73 Scott HL9MI
Perhaps this prize would encourage me to get on the HF bands with one of my kit QRP rigs in a field situation. Be a nice birthday gift, for sure!
73 and thanks for the opportunity to enter,
John, W9JGO
Sounds like a great contest!
Hi: I talked to a lot of friends that are using one because they have
antenna restictions.
They seem to perform well and I would like to own one.
Jerry w0sat
The Buddipole completes the package when going out operating portable. Fantastic piece of electrical & constructional engineering; it’s a possession I’d be very proud to own.
This would be the perfect match to my Yaesu FT-817D. Thanks for the opportunity! 73 de KD4QMY
I would use the Buddipole to get On the air in my antenna restricted community.
i enjoy your posts everyday.the articles are interesting and up to date.thanks,keep it interesting,john sickles
This package might inspire me to “Take a Hike” as the xyl has requested of me at different times in our 42 year adventure!
It would be a great thing to have for emergency communication
I would throw the Buddi-Pole in my antique GMC Motorhome, with the FT-857D and use it during my travels.
I’d use mine for camping!
I have entered so any contest up to now and never won a thing. It would be wonderful to win this one and chalk it up to ARRL.
I just moved from being in the country to a house in my home town and I haven’t had time to put up any antennas. In other words I went from a acre to a small lot and a Buddipole Buddistick Deluxe would be the ticket to get me back on the air the quickest and easiest way!
I enjoy QRP from high spots in GA, sometimes there are no trees where I want to sit and enjoy the view so a tripod mounted antenna would be a wonderful tool.
I am just starting to do portable HF trips with my (original) Icom 706 and PowerPort Store battery backpack and LDG autotuner. I am now using a random longwire but the BuddiStick to get out better!
I saw one in use a few weeks ago working dx on 20 meters. It will be great for camping.
73,
Simon
KQ2V
It could be a nice way to start again my IOTA dxpeds.
Handy dandy pack for the trail, or the backyard. a functional deal.
I would love to have a Buddipole for use with a Ten-Tec 4020 for QRP in the field. I’m kind of tied to the shack with my FT-1000MP Mark V since it requires a 30 volt power supply, but with a Buddipole I could operate at the town park, mountain topping, or whereever I choose. Especially with warm weather coming on soon I hope!
Very 73 de Cliff KU4GW
NAQCC#1491 FPQRP#1183 SKCC#652
Thanks for the chance to improve my capabilities.
How would I use it? Let’s seenow, I have have had my ticket for less than 2 years. My rig is a Yeasu FT 897d that I use for home but would love to pack it up and hit the road at times. I do not own a portable antenna but a Buddistick™ Deluxe Package would be great to have and use.
Count me in! I would love to have one of those for ARES/RACES work. We are trying to put together portable packages for hf work here in out county.
73, Larry KL7IBV
Very cool contest! Thanks for the cool site.
Summer is on the way. Would be nice for my portable work…Bob NG4R
looks great for travel!
Would use it when I go hiking in the mountains.
It would give me a chance to use one of my 706’s at field day.
love the articles in your newsletter …. keep up the good work
thanks
Lorne
One of the best portable antennas – sets up anywhere and is very easy to use! Portable QRP was never so easy!
Nice set-up for comming summer. Excellent choise for portable.
I’m thinking about field day. This would be great.
I have a lot of travel ahead of me in summer. Buddipole would go with me to to Spain, Montenegro, Latvia, Turkey….. maybe some more
That BuddiPole sure would look nice outside our rental at the beach! And I could give lots of people a relatively rare county, too.
Thanks for the contest & all the aggregated content!
73,
K2DSL – David
The “Buddistick™ Deluxe Package” would make a great addition to my emergency communications deployment package! If I can’t win it, I will have to see about buying one.
I would love to use the Buddipole Antenna with my 300 milliwatt Qrp transceiver. By the way I really enjoy amateurradio.com.
Thanks for the support!
What a great promotion! I’ve heard good things about this product and I think the winner will be very pleased.
73, Tim – K6ACF
I’ve looked at these antenna packages (for a complete package is what it is) for some time, but just never had the cash at the right time. These are great for traveling, field days, and the best ever for a “go box!”
We have use a Buddy Pole at several club meetings to demo rigs and software. They worked great. A fine piece of gear. Al, K4DEY
LOOKS REALLY EASY TO SET UP! THAT SURE WOULD SIMPLIFY HAULING AROUND A LOT OF ANTENNA GEAR TO OPERATE ON SEVERAL BANDS. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW ?
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Sounds like a great portable traveling companion.
Looking forward to using the Buddistick on my QRP rig.
sign me up, I’ll use it on my 817…. Thanks
I hope I win
Ditto on the QRP. It’s new to me and would love a portable, quick set-up radiator!!
Amateur radio .com rocks
I’ve long been intrigued by the Buddipole products. Were I to win the Buddistick I would use it in field-operations with my QRP K2.
Stupendous! This “Buddypole Antenna Pack” will be the “Cat’s Meow” at our local field day when I pull up on my bicycle mobile. Thanks for the demo video. 73, Fred (k6wiz).
I’d use the BuddyStick setup to operate remotely using my IC-706MKII for Field Day and for ARES operations. Some occasional mountain topping might be in the works also.
Looks like an easy antenna for remote work.
I’d LOVE to have a BuddiPole for camping and hiking.
Looks like just the thing for operating from my RV. Sign me up!
73 de N4WFL
I’m in an antenna restricted area. HELP!
I’m fairly new to the hobby and am actually looking for something like a buddystick that I can use on HF in my restrictive condo development (can’t wait to get a real house, can’t afford to either hahaha)
I use an indoor Buddipole as my base-station antenna on 15, 17, 20, and 40 meters, as I’m not allowed outdoor antennas. It does a good job under the circumstances, especially on 15, 17, and 20, though it’s finicky to tune. I’d welcome a chance to get a Buddistick as well
A friend of mine swears by his Buddistick. I am looking forward to trying one out.
Hi and thanks for offering the great package as a gift for someone! I would definitely put the pole to good use on vacation. Try to go to Hawaii every year and play radio, so the buddipole would be a great travelling companion. Thanks again es 73’s de Rick N7KO.
I bet these are great antlers for beach DXing!
I am in an antenna free area and want to get back on the air after 10 years of not being able to be on the air.
I’ll learn to type eventually, or not.
Winning this great prize would allow me to set up and operate portable within just a few minutes. Summer storms are coming and the ability to operate portable just might save a life. Plus, this would be a great setup for camping, field days, and contests. Thanks very much!
That looks like a great antenna. I live in a townhouse so I would use it on my back deck. I might even try it on the sailboat.
What a great opportunity to use in ARES.
I would use the buddy pole for ARES/RACES events.
Hi, Fantastic idea. I am working with a wire on the summit on the air program.
Winning an antenna like this would sure make it easier to carry the gear up to the summit. This would also allow for more contacts with the use of more bands…
Thanks for the opportunity to enter this contest.
Richard KJ4ZIZ
A fellow ham has one and we use it regularly when we operate portable for ham radio demonstrations at various events. Have always wanted one of my own.
73, Gurbux. W6BUX
Would love to use one of these portable up in the mountains here in Idaho!
It will go good with the go-bag. Thanks for running the contest again.
Just the thing for those camping trips this summer!
I would use it on a portable set up along the water in town known as Oyster Bay, Long Island.
This has become my favorite Ham blog.
A great “time sink” draining away many hours by sparking new interests.
THANKS
73
Rob
The buddipole looks great for portable emcomm. That is how I would use it.
this is cool product and would be nice in any ones go-kit for ares or races needs. its weird I am just now starting to build my go-kit for next hurricane season. got laptop and small battery system is all so far but its a nice start for a disabled guy living on SSI.
I didn’t think it was going to cost so much to build a simple dual band go-kit for the field and have a decent box not the best but to do the job at hand. hardest for me right now is charging the battery up via solar or generator. I don’t have either but I keep it charged in garage with regular charger for that battery.
My dad and I could use this to go on QRP excursions on our farm.
Would love to go portable on top of a hill and work DX. The Buddy Pole would be perfect!
I would use this fine antenna for Portable ECOMM situations. Thanks for the contest.
Thanks for the opportunity to win a great antenna.
I watched the video and discovered that even I could set this antenna up.
i read your site and i do a lot of camping so a portable antenna would be cool!
Well, I sure would like to try one out. Here in western montana we often climb mountain and hike long distances and would be nice to care hf along as alot of times no vhf is in range…73, Alan
Buddipole is built very well and of high quality. This makes a great travel antenna kit! Also great for Field Ops.
Good Luck to all
I would love to take it on a camping trip and work some qrp!
What a great prize – sign me up.
This is what I need to make my weekend complete. It would be a great prize for me to use when I go camping!
Thanks for allowing me to enter the drawing. I would pair it up with my FT-817 for a fun Field Day at the beach .
This would be great for camping trips. Sign me up!
Good luck to all and 73!
Since I live in an earthquake prone area it would be a good addition to my emergency radio kit. I could also use it for field trips with my school. But then again, I can afford to buy one myself, so I rather see the antenna end up in the hands of a Japanese ham who has lost everything in the tsunami.
Would use this with my RV while camping. I travel the US and this is just what is needed while park in the campground to be able to get on the air.
Howdy, I’m new to your site, I just found it by accident, but i will mention it on the club net
Thursday night, Will I love to win and I’ve thought of many great ways to use the antenna and
places I’d like to take it to. I’m disabled and I try not to let it get in the way of my radio play time
BUT! ?. Anywho, I’m trying to make a trip to Southern California, to visit family and my sister
has a cabin in the mountains, It’s at 5300 ft, It’s called MacGREGOR’s look-out. In the 60’s and
70’s you could look dew west and see the top of Catalina Inland off the coast, about 150 miles.
That’s just one of the many great DX spots I know of and I’m a repairer and experimenter and
I’ve thought of alot of great uses for the antenna?! Thanks very much.
73 and Siezures. ( sorry it’s a medical joke ) hi hi.
Duncan KF6YYT
Buddy pole, my HF rig, a backpack. Sounds like a Summer DX Expedition! Please, Please ,Please pick ME! (I really must see the shrink about that 5 year old that keeps taking over my mind when I see your products…)
was going to buy one tax time, but would prefer to win one.
great for doing parks on the air – be used a ton in the florida national parks when the warm weather starts settling in for the year
When I get a Buddipole (should I not win, I will purchase one), I will use it when we take our camper to the beach, or elsewhere- Looks perfect for portable HF operation. I wish I had one of them when I was in New Orleans for Katrina, and would have been REALLY handy at Galveston when I was there for Ike. Thanks for the opportunity, and good luck to all! Omer, AD7DY
Thank you for a chance to win this great Buddistick antenna package.
Regards to all from Sunny Malta
I visit the site regularly.
One of these would be great when the noise levels get high at the home qth . I could quickly deploy this antenna and and my ft 857 in a near by park which is very quiet electrically .
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Dear friends ,
Thanks for offering this great prize of Buddistick , please sign me up .
73΄s , Dinos – SV1GK.
I have got Buddipole Deluxe Package but I am sure that Buddistick™ Deluxe Package also works fine. 73 de Neven, 9A5YY
Great looking antenna indeed. if i had one i would probably pair it with my ft-817 and activate some summits and work portable around the islands. 73’s de OY1R
Excellent.
That would be a good antenna to go with my portable HF-radio. 73 Oli
This could be the answer to my /P operation with my Ft-817….
great idea for a competition. good luck.
What a nice idea. Great promo.
John, KB3KEM
This would be ideal for my beach portable outings!
If I win this, will be a good reason to acquire the FT857D that I’m a eye on since Christmas.
73!
I’d use the buddipole backpacking and for SOTA. 73
I have an FT-857D and a motorcycle. This would be a great combo for long trips,
Looking for the best antenna for SOTA activations during the Camb-Hams GS3PYE/P DXPedition to the Isle of Arran EU-123 http://dx.camb-hams.com/dx-peditions/arran-dxpedition-11
Would love to have as do a lot of portable work while away with Motorhome.
Thanks for opertunity to enter.
Have seen good things from the Buddistick crew, would love to see it up close. 🙂
John KD8LDN
Like to do qrp on the local bike trail. The Buddystick package would make this a snap!
Thanks for your time
I have used buddistick with QRP rigs on many trips. It is a nice size for travel. I worked Italy with 3 watts and the Buddistick. I could always use another one.
Sounds great. Thanks for making this possible!
Great idea for a great antenna system.
I would like to own one to make qso’s in digital modes with it. I think that the antenna and my ft-817 are the best choices for my /P operations outdoors…
I’d love the opportunity to give one of these a workout.
Used a friend’s buddipole, and it was great!
I would love one of these for portable operation!!
I don’t have a buddipole/bussistick yet, but I have always wanted to get one, especially now that I have started to look at doing SOTA. Once I have cleared some debt I am sure I will buy a buddipole one day. Just need to convince the XYL!
Great idea, summers coming and so is fieldday, would begreat for that and camping..73
Hello Friends! I live in NYC but I often visit my daughter in California. It would be great to set up the Buddistick with a QRP rig and transmit from her pool deck!
73, Charles N2SO
My other hobby is riding motorcycles. Would be great to have this Buddiestick for mobile fun.
I’d definitely be heading out for some QRPp work and it would surely give me good cause to get my FT-817ND sooner than later!
Shure would love to replace my hombrew sticks with this fine thing 🙂
73 de oz1tmk
I like to take my radio hobby with me when I go camping. However, stringing antennas in the trees takes a lot of time that could be better spent operating. A Buddistick would give me more time to make QSOs!
Great prize and great webpage! I would use it for my ARES operations while portable.
LOVE COMING TO THIS BLOG. ALWAYS GOOD INFORMATION. HAVE A COUPLE OF FRIENDS THAT USE BUDDISTICKS. ON MY LIST TO PURCHASE FOR USE WITH MY 703
I will use while on business trips.
Great time lapse! I love the fact you can get it setup easily in any weather.
I want to be a buddy of the Buddipole
This would be nice for a “go-kit” for sure!
I run a battery powered QRP station every day and am frequently asked if I take the rig portable. After resuming ham radio operations after a 10 yr hiatus, I’d love to be able to enjoy some nice weather and operate portable. I think setting up on the playground at my wife’s elementary school would be quite interesting for the kids and probably wind up in sparking some interest in ham radio.
I work for a newspaper/broadcast company as well and think a portable setup on our deck overlooking the city would draw some real interest.
I would use it for ARES and other emergency related events.
nice one fellers,can we have more prizes please…
I first saw the buddy pole used to demonstrate amateur radio to delegates to UUM-ITU organised disaster communication 2 years ago. It was easily deployed and impressed me… but just can’t get one of these off the racks in Malaysia or Singapore. Would sure like to have the buddypole to do a fast and efficient amateur radio demonstration on emcom.
So many possibilities if I won this… Portable QRP mountaintop hikes, camping in Maine, Field Day, battery powered qrp in the fishing boat on the lake!
I would use the Buddipole with my FT-817 from my beach apartment whilst on holiday!
I would use the Buddistick in my back yard because of HOA restrictions. I usually run low power using one of my Kenwood transceivers. I would be able to compare it with my PAC-12 antenna which I use now.
What a wonderful Idea …well done yet again the USA is leading the way.
Would use this on my adventures out of town ( heck even in town at local parks!) a quick setup would be great — just started working some qrp gear and this would be the beast addition!!
This would be great for a demonstration station at public service events.
It would be a great addition for emergency communications.
Noticed the announcement on the Southgate Amateur Radio Club
homepage:
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/march2011/win_a_buddistick.htm
Sounds a great idea to take along fishing.73
well the buddistick will definately bring my dxing life to a new level. i Hope i will set it up on my home it will look fantastik and will for sure drew everybody’s attention.
mogire
kenya
I’ve had my eye on one of these packages for a while now.
This would be great since I don’t have an HF antenna yet, but have 2 rigs that I’d like to start using!
73s,
Roger
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Hi! I’d love a Buddystick – am taking up sota this year and it would be a FANTASTIC addition to the kit bag
would be a welcomne addition to my field day package as I would finally be able to work a lot of qrp stations
I hope to hike the Sapphire and Bitterroot Mountains here in Montana, to put the summits on the air for amateur radio operators to work this county, these summits, and the grid. I need this antenna to accomplish this effort.
Looks like a great antenna to take along on my hikes in the Alps.
73,
Mitch DJ0QN
We had real good luck using a Buddystick last year on one of our field day stations. I would use one in my restricted-community back yard. If I had half the success that we had at field day I would be one happy “ham-er.”
Thanks for the opportunity to be a Buddy.
73
I would use the for all ARRL Field Days, and any type of Emergency where a Ham operator is needed and during any other needed time of any sorta when called upon during all weather conditions such as power outage, snow storms and rain, sleet and snow.
73’s
Bob KC2TFI
I would love to win this antenna:-)
Would be a great thing to have for field day and in case of an emergency
I have now successfully achieved my Foundation certificate, and awaiting a date for my Intermediate exam. As a treat on passing I used my savings and bought an FT817. Now I am license, I do a lot of camping, and I would like to start my new hobby by taking it out and about with me in my expeditions, and the Buddistick would be a dream come true! I have long-looked at the Buddistick as the ideal antenna system for my setup, (especially as an efficient antenna like the Buddistick, is essential for a QRP rig like the FT817)and it would be put to great use! This is one of the main problems in starting out in this hobby; the expense, and I really do think there should be some sort of concession for newly licensed Amateurs, to help them get started.
Plan to do some portable operating this summer and this would make a wonderful antenna.
Thanks for the opportunity to win a Buddistick system. This system would be awesome for road trips, Field Day and emergency comms. I have read nothing but glowing reports about the Buddistick. I’d love to try one out. Again thanks for the opportunity.
I’d sure like to try this antenna out on my next DXPedition to Hutchinson Island. NA-141 Ham Radio… Lunch… and BEER… boy,! what a concept!!!
Here in NZ we do not have all the goodie what you guy have in USA and to me to have a buddistick system would be great for AREC work ,rally coms as were I live is inside a crater in Rotorua New Zealand,I do a lot of HF Mobile and it can be very good and neede antenna system,
Thanks,
Pieter.
I’ll give you two. COMMENT COMMENT
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would make such a difference to me having one of these, they look really good kk
I am always experimenting with various antennas. This would certainly be a good one to use. Since my time is very limited, the easy setup for it would certainly be a big plus for me..
Good luck to all but I hope I am the one!
73
Don N4UJW
I sit here this morning, day dreaming about connecting my IC-703 to this Buddipole Antenna and sitting on top of a ridge in Eastern Washington, calling CQ.. Ah, just heaven…
Damn, I just woke, sorry back to work!
Gud Luck Everyone! N7MZ
Hey, been reading the blog for awhile. Thanks for the chance to win!
Take care..de….Rynn
i do alotta motorcycle camping & this would be the perfect antenna for me
A buddistick would be a great bonus for me as I am new to the bands.
I would use it when I am operating portable while visiting my in-laws in Japan some time later this year
73
JRG
DK3NG/G4XXW
I’d love to give one of these a try when I’m /P…
I would love to team one of these up with my Yaesu FT-817 QRP Transceiver for portable QRP operation.
Very nice antenna. Nice that it is self-supporting.
I would like to use this antenna when i operated as JW/SQ5BPF – it is very hard to hang up an inverted V when there are no trees around 🙂
VY 73 de Jacek / SQ5BPF
I,ve had my eye on this for a while. im moving into a townhome soon so im going to need a portable antenna for the no permanent antennas there.
Would be great to give this antenna a try for portable ops. Please enter me into the drawing.
Thanks and 73.
-Chris KC2SYK
Spiffy. Good luck everyone.
hope I win I can use some new toys being new to the hobby.
I would use the Buddypole as a perfect antenna for my potable qrp work,now that i have retired.
I think I could hide this thing from the antenna police here at The Landings. It might work better than a wire in the attic.
I will use the Buddipole after the zombie apocalypse.
wow would be great for me, new ham and just picked up my first hf radio, kenwood ts-440.
thanks
Frank
Well if i was to win, I would use it when my wife and i go camping,
I’d keep the buddie pole in my truck with my ic-706, have it ready
for any emergency that may happen.
Thank you
David Lankford N0DKS
5 gets you 10 I don’t win this 🙂
Only if there was a prize for never winning any competitions would I finally win something
My uses would be for ARES/RACES EMCOMM (and drills) as a portable, quickly set up HF operation. Also for Field Day and SET ops, as well as a rover in QSO Parties.
A fantastic addition to the to-go package for use with my Alinco DR-70TH in portable mode!
3’s & 8″s
Rick KA5EZQ
If I was to win I would use it as a emergency antenna since I live in the area hit by Hurricane Katrina and for portable playing around at the park,
I would make this prize an integral part of an EMCOMM Go-pack, testing it on campouts with Scout troops.
I have used many single band verticals over my 50+ years as a ham
and everything from dipole, beams, and rhombics but never a portable
buddystick as a moble unit. I with my club Stonewall Jackson Amateur Radio Association maintain a working including an MOU with our local OEM of Harrison County, WV and a portable HF vertical would be a great asset to
our operating equipment. Have always wondered about the proformance of the Buddystick compared to other fixed verticals. Good luck to whom every wins.
Dick Wilt KT8TPH EX: CN8FF/KZ5WR/KL7AIZ
If won by this entry from our Amateur Radio association, a 501(c)(3) non-profit educational and public service organization. It would become part of the association’s expanded EMCOMM plan.
Douglas Shaw, WA0EMX
Executive Director
ASCRA, Inc.
Independence, Missouri
As an 89 year old ham and WW2 Navy pilot, winning such a prize might give me the incentive to upgrade from my venerable Novice license, held since 1979.
traveling in a truck camper for 10 years plus have many ant. to compare against, portable from cost to coast and texas to alaska. 73 dick
My mate has one and I watched him put this bad boy up in no time. I have to have one of these and it will complete my camping equipment.
Thanks for the chance to take part in the give away
73 Phil
I’m an FT-817 user, and live in a gated community with a lot of restrictions. I’d use my Buddistick package to set up a little “Field Day” in the yard every time I wanted to operate. A temporary setup like that cannot be objected to, and a system that’s fast to setup and take down would be ideal for me! Naturally, I’ll take it along wherever I operate, especially the REAL Field Day! 🙂
//Steve//
I would only use my Buddy Stick for good and not evil.
Have fun,
Jon N5JLD
They work very well used in Western Samoa and Vanuatu on vacation, especially the longer version, but needs a guide string stop it flagging about. Simple to tune up and find a suitable post.
Edward Crane 364 newfoundland dr st john’s newfoundland canada
catch me on aprs at vo1um-4 also vo1ehc-9 both my calls..
have a wonderful day.
I cant hear anything at home – so field work would be good.
Yes love one for our motorhome trips Then I have no excuse for not being on air
fabulous idea, like you I am a winner!!!
Many thanks for the chance to win a buddistick, I would use it for emergency comms and field station setups .. Ah only if we had company like this down here !!!
73 ZL1UTC Tony
Looks an interesting antenna, also an interesting way to acquire one.
Awesome Deal, might have to buy one if I don’t win!
I’ve been looking at this neat bit of kit for awhile. Go portable from my motorhome a lot & would be a nice quick set up. Good luck to all!
Perfect timing. I was considering just this past weekend how I would like to move my ability in equipment to a portable capability. The Buddistick would come in nicely. I’ll get on top of a hill and see what she will do.
This will go very nicely with my FT817
Would love to try this antenna in the great outdoors!
looks great for field day and search and rescue comms.
I would very much like to win the Buddistick to have available for emergency communications. Especially in the event of a VERY big earthquake, where tower and fixed antenna configurations might not survive. With the major earthquake in Christchurch, and now in Northern Japan, it is a very good time for Amateur Radio Operators to think about how they could recover from such an event, and get operating. Kevin, ZL2KC – Marton, NEW ZEALAND.
Looks ideal to tuck in the corner and not spoil the view
A great looking antenna, Just what the xyl need’s to go with her FT-817
I have a friend who has used a Buddipole with great success from several interesting locations including Ascension Island and Saint Helena.
I could use one of these!
I really could use one of these
Another great prize giveaway… good luck to all.
I’d use the BuddyStick setup to operate 7days a week 365 day a yr I live in
apartment with restrictions
Great antenna to take on vacations and useful during spring storm & Tornado season. Thanks 73
You’ve got to be in to win.
I’d love to win this
What a generous oportunuity!
If I owned one of these, It would live in the floor compartment of my Subaru wagon with the tripod that is already there. I would use it instead of the whip my XYL will not let me install on the(our?)car. (Stationary mobile of course). I’m sure the FT-847 will love it.
73 Keith ZL2TPQ
Looks like a very useful little antenna.
its so refreshing to see so much on a good site with heaps of info to read up about, thanks and keep it up.
I would love to try that antenna in the park.
Do a bit or island camping, would be a great antenna to allow me to use portable, activate some islands. Easy to carry. Thanks for the chance to get one. KM
This is a great way to acquire a great product for some lucky ham!
Like most beginning hams, money is limited. Currently operating of a couple home-brew sky hooks.
Just the thing for our next feild station operation.
Thanks for the opportunity to win.
I would use my budy pole when I go camping and while I am at my hunting camp, as I do not have room for a antenna farm either way.
Sign me up. I hear the Buddy Stick rocks
Looks like a great package
Hey where’s Rooster and Peanut! LOL
This will be ideal for my numerous off-road 4×4 trips around the country!! Great package and not much room needed!
Just got my first brand new HF rig FT897. Be awesome to have a new antenna to get straight on the air waves. Cheers Daniel ZL4DE
this would be wounderful to take camping and road trips 4 wheel driving great product.
I enjoy riding my recumbent tricycle out in the countryside. It would be fun
to operate portable using my Hendricks PFR-3A and a portable antenna system
like the Buddistick delux package.
72, Gary
I’d use it for emergency communications and portable working.
Please enter me for the Buddistick Deluxe drawing. I love QRP and would use the Buddistick with my Elecraft K1 QRP radio on camping trips.
I hope to take up SOTA in the near future,so this antenna would be great for hill-topping!!
I would use it on fieldays, holidays and the like. Looks an easy setup and a very good aerial!
Would be great for this years field day!! Sign me up!
Would be great for travelling with my K3.
Thanks for the opportunity to win one of these excellent packages. I’d use it with my new FT-817ND on our treks around our wonderful countryside with my wife of course.
Best 73 Tony ZL3HAM
I live in a unit in Sydney and I think this would be an ideal antenna
Wow, looks like an awesome product, and thanks for the chance to enter. Going to have to look at their products now… 🙂
Sounds great for car rally’s & AREC activities…
I plan to use the Buddiestick on top of the beautiful hills of Scotland, the beaches of European holiday locaations, and the along the coasts of Florida.
73,
George K4IIO, GM0IIO, GM4O
I have an FT 817, a Buddipole Deluxe Antenna would be a great asset for me to operate portable. I have read nothing but glowing reports about the Buddipole’s quality and performance.
Thank you for this opportunity. 73 // E20TCM
A great prize! thanks to all!
Hi,
I have an Icom-703 and tried many different portable type antenna, including chap stick, miricle whip, wonderwand etc. If I am lucky enough to win, I hope this would be the antenna to beat all the others I have tried.
Great prize, would love one of these for field trips and Arec (US Emergency comms equvilent) would go great with my 897
I have used a homemade dipole with my FT-817, always wanted to try a Buddipole since I have heard great reports of their use.
Lovely contest, equally good prize!
I’d use the buddipole stick to bring amateur radio closer to the youth here in ON-country, portable and swift operation is always a seller when you’re trying to give a demonstration at a local school/event.
With this economy, I sometimes have to work several hours from home for extended periods of time – this would be ideal to allow me to still be on the air during those times – sign me up !
The “Buddi” system is just terrific. Wish I had one for my QRP work. A friend does and he uses is all over the place with his K2/10. Hope to be a winner!
I’d like t win a Buddi stick.
I would use the Budipole to activate several islands in Florida as part of the IOTA program.
73
Bob, KB2VMG
I look forward to using this Buddistick with my FT 857
Would love to match it up with my FT897 and solar panel for a portable HF rig.
Looks like a great package!
Nice ham radio site.
The Buddistick would be a great replacement for my aging home brewed PAC -12. The PAC-12 has done a great job with my Elecraft K1 but it maybe time for a change.
I’d use the Buddistick for HF Pack ops in the outdoors, and as an emergency backup antenna in case of natural disasters.
I live in an area subject to HOA rules against antennas and a Buddipole would be perfect for setting up when I want to get on HF! It’d also be great for use while camping or on field day.
I will use the Buddipole to get on the HF bands.
Cool site – cool contest.
73
Built a copy…worked OK. Would love to try the “industrial” model. Using Par end feds…sometimes tough to lug that portable Skyhook along to support the other end for QRP/P work!
Drew
N4ABA
I would use the Buddistick at field day and other opportunities in the field.
I would give the Buddistick to my husband as a gift.
I would use the Buddistick for portable activities like Feild days and or at my QTH due to a lack of any decent antenna for 20m to 80m. Thankyou.
Just lost a tower and all the antenna on it…. A free Buddistick would help get back on the air…
Another great giveaway. I hope to win. Good luck everyone.
I’ve been wanting one of these for a long time.
sign me up. I’d be using it portable when camping
The Buddistick has the quality and excellent design heritage of the Buddipole – can’t go wrong.
I would use the Buddistick from my ice fishing shack in the winter and from my pontoon in the summer and I’ll bet I would catch more ‘ham’ than fish!
This is a good promtion. WTG guys. I wonder if someday I’ll need to check DXCC cards for 100 countries from a Buddistick
Want to compile a good quick hurry and run emergency portable station for
all sorts of contigencies
Two things I’d do: (Not necessarily in this order.)
1. Get outside and play radio.
2. Find some young budding ham and give this prize to them.
This is a very interesting idea. Keep up the good work.
I would play radio more since I can’t have antennas at the condo.
Wow, I’d love to win one of these—Would be great with my ft817.
I need the Buddistick for field day!
It’s amazing how well these antennas perform, even with qrp.
Moving to a antenna restricted area. I can have a antenna just nothing big and this would fit my needs.
I would use the antenna for mobile disaster situations, field day, and general backpacking/mobile operations.
There’s nothing like sitting on top of a mountain and throwing your signal to the world.
I would use this at my home QTH due to the fact that I happen to live in one of those CCR zones in San Antonio, TX. I have a small lot and it has made it very troublesome to put up an antenna. I am restricted as for putting up one in my attic but it has a solar reflective material.
So I would very much enjoy putting on an arrangement of portable in my backyard and mobile.
Joe
I very much enjoy ham radio and miss it. I happen to live in a restricted CCR in San Antonio, Tx. And the lot I have makes it very troublesome to arrange a wire antenna. I am also hindered from putting one in my attice due to the fact it is a solar reflective roof.
So I would arrange to make this a portable style antenna in my backyard.
Hope to upgrade to general and a Buddistick would be a great present!
Look forward to winning…getting tired of string wires for portable ops. 72, Bob
Wow !!! Looking forward to using my new buddipole for HF emcomm drills 🙂
I’ve LOVED this hobby for about a year, however I have only explored the 2 meter/70 bands. I would absolutely LOVE to have such a flexible antenna to help me discover so much more. Thanks!
I’VE FOLLOWED STEVE, A BUDDISTICK AND STEVE’S GOATS, ON HIS SUMMITS ON THE AIR TRIPS. I’M IMPRESSED WITH THE MANY CONTACKS THEY HAVE MADE. THEY HAVE INSPIRED ME TO HIKE AND PUT SEVERAL MOUNTAIN TOP FIRE TOWERS ON THE AIR. A BUDDISTICK SURE WOULD MAKE MY ADVENTURES A LOT EASIER.
73 LES N2IR
Thanks for the great web site. It’s on my daily-read list here. 73
This would be a great antenna for the portable ops I would like to do, like going around activating different counties here in Utah that are hardly ever on the air.
Great Prize!
i would use the buddistick out camping, and when i go portable and dont see the need to take out a big wire,and at the house since i live in a HOA neighborhood i could attach it to the stairs on the patio and work dx in the summers!
Great site – I particularly liked your commentary on the state of Amateur Radio and the need to embrace spread spectrum technologies, smart antennas, etc. A buddistick would be great for EMCOM, but also for introducing new folks to HF.
I am heavily involved in emergency communications and I am on call 24/7. This would be a great addition to my jump kit for immediate deployment. I live in a mountainous area and this antenna would be of benefit in getting transmissions out. Thanks
This will go real good with the rest of my QRP equipment.
Have one already — great balcony antenna! Next one is dedicated portable
I made a homebrew BuddiStick that I have used in the past, and I would love to have a real BuddiStick for camping!
I would love to use that antenna while out with the boy scouts!
Nice prize. I’d enjoy ttrying it out with JT65.
I picture myself on such a hill top with one of my QRP rigs and my new Buddipole—-but on a nice warm, sunny spring or summer day!
This would be an excellent addition to our emergency communications cache.
I would love to win a buddistick antenna out in the field on field day or on emergency drills and excercises out in the field.
Very cute. Somehow I think it took more than 60 second to put up the antenna. Look kinda cold too.
love to try this antenna on my fiends sailboat, want to use it to determine its effectiveness in making contacts out on the pacific ocean, as I help bring his sail boat down from Portland to Half Moon Bay this summer.
Shoot a free prize, sign me up!!!!
Thanks for the chance to win !
Looks like a nice, neat package. Keeping fingers crossed!
After hurricane Katrina the need for a quick and portable antenna system went from a need to a must. This would be a must have in any gokit.
Looks like a good ECOMM setup.
I’ll take it where ever we travel and show my friends just how much fun one can have talking to strangers and friends alike. Also probably also use it as a second antenna on Field Day. (My other antenna is a BuddiPole.)
Thanks for the chance to win.
Will use with my Flex 1500
I love my Buddipole. Can’t wait to try the Buddistick.
The buddi-stick package will be ideal for operating portable on my camping trips! Please enter me in the contest.
Fine Parts for Ham Radio , easy to use.
73 `s de Hejo
The Buddipole system has been a great portable antenna system for my on the go operations. I have had great success from the basic setup through to using it as a 2 element 6 meter beam for mountain top contests.
Good for go pack, field day, or a day at the park
The Buddistick would be great for an upcoming Boy Scout campout, I am teaching the Radio merit badge.
I would use it on field day and everyday
Beautifully successful go anywhere HF antenna package which I have seen demonstrated before, would love to own one!
73’s de M3EXE
Follow me on Twitter @M3EXE
To da beach!!
Sounds like a good deal to me. I have been looking for a portable antenna to run with my new rig.
Thanks for the opportunity to win a great antenna!
73, Lou, W0FK
Just what I need for trips to the farm in South Dakota or for operating in the great outdoors!
Great product
I travel to a lot of conferences internationally and am an evangelist for amateur radio and open source software. I could use this to do demos and get on the air while I travel.
Nice contest!
A ham radio friend who is wheel-chair bound uses his Buddistick as his mobile antenna. It sets up very quickly and performs very well. I was amazed at its performance!
I’ve always wanted a Buddipole antenna for my portable station.
I’d like to use this while camping or for emergency use.
Experimenting with different antennas is one of the biggest reasons I wanted to be a ham, I look forward to having all the options these kits offer!
I would have my buddypole ready for use in Camping or, more inportantly, use for an emergency setup when I’m performing ARES activities.
sure will beat a crooked stick and nest of wire for portable ops.
If I was to win, I would use it with my FT-817ND while hiking.
I just passed my technician and now general tests this past month, thanks to JSARS, my local ham club.
However, as a proud owner of a new Yaesu 857d and a Larsen dual band VHF mobile antenna, I have found that my use of the HF spectrum is somewhat….um, antenna equipment limited.
A Buddipole/Buddistick kit is the at the very top of my shortlist for a portable HF antenna solution.
So whether I save up for a Buddistick or DIY my own version, i’d love to be considered as a winning candidate.
Thanks for the opportunity AmateurRadio.com!
I plan on using these ‘My Favorite Martian’ style to
‘Phone Home’ in a quick.
I am on the road a lot and I like to pull off and see what I can pick up. As a recently retired Air Force member(served 30 years), I visit installations and I set up to scan and talk, The Buddistick would be just the thing!
Sign me up – I go camping in the mountains – this would be a great antenna!
It would be nice to win. I would give it to an old friend, who is Paraplegic and recently moved to assisted living, so he can get back on the air HF.
Great prize this newsletter is the best check it each day…
Don’t have one, but it would be nice when I go camping.
A great item to have when traveling.
Great idea for a contest! I would use the BuddiStick for camping and emergency field operations.
Bill – KK4XO
Great Contest!! I would use the Buddystick for EMMCOMS, Field Day and Special events
I love Buddistick!
Now that I became a General Class operator it would be good to have the Buddistick so that I could do some off site field day events. This would be the best field day antenna.
With the limited space I have here at the shack, it sure would come in handy.
with the space that I have here the Buddistick will be ideal for my space
Very nice!
I could really use a portable antenna due to my HOA and restrictive covenants neighborhood. Please sign me up! Thanks.
I have two young boys, one that just turned 4 and the other is 2. They love to turn the buttons on my rig. The only thing my son can talk about is going camping. So I figure if I win this I can take my radio easily with us on a camp out. I also just started helping with the local boy scouts who now have a ham radio badge. I have not been able to take my rig to an outing yet do to the expense and convenience of a GOOD portable antenna.
I don’t have a Buddipole, but could use one for field dx,ing.
Great web site!
I’d use my Buddistick when demonstrating Ham Radio to my local Scout Troop, and as an additional antenna when participating in contests whilst portable. Maybe it would be just the edge to get me a few more points for first place in my Zone for IARU HF 2011.
I’d use the Buddistick, to get out of my Dad’s shack and enjoy some fresh air.
Looks like I could use it with Search & Rescue’s portable 2 -M Repeater!
B.
A great antenna for camping and the FT-817
The perfect setup when away on holiday – fast and easy to assemble.
I would have way to operate when I go to my daughter’s house in another city.I have no way to operate there. I am disabled and I beleive when my grandsons help I could erect the Buddistick.
Thanks ZLHAMS for the link
A friend has one an loves it!i am on second floor of apartments,this would get me on the air! appreciate a chance to win.73 de Ken KF7DKL.
I’d like to have something portable to use when I tavel in our 5th wheel RV.
Looking forward to comparing the BP to my SuperAntenna. Inasmuch as SA seems to be no longer shipping… 73, ERIC K1NUN
I would use the BuddiStick to defeat the neighborhood association, a force for evil in the universe.
Great Prize, Sign me up
I haven’t use a BuddiStick before, but can think of several ways I could.
Lee
Count me in!
I would be using the buddistick to be able back pack into areas for
SOTA and also for use in activating US Islands on the air here in the
great north west Washington and B.C. Canada. I have noting now and
have not been able to afford one due to being on SS. But as soon as
I can scrape up enough will get one even if I don’t win this one. Always
looking at hamfest for a used one, but they are so great no one sells them.
thanks for the chance
Vic
If I would win this prize, it would be part of my go to kit for emergency and or vacation use.
73’s
Gary WA8FEA
If I were to win this prize, I would use this as part of my go to kit to be used in case of emergency or even for vacation purposes
73’s
Gary WA8FEA
My wife and I love camping up in the foothills of Mt Rainier here in Washington State. It looks like the perfect addition to having fun while camping. It would make a good match for my little TS-50 in the camp trailer.
Hoping this antenna will be the beginning of portable HF operation during hiking and walking outings.
have a deluxe bp……….GREAT
This would be great. I have been wanting to try one what better way,
That would be awesome to use at a mountaintop broadcast site I maintain. Count me in.
Would use this antenna when operating portable on vacation and when visiting son & family to hopefully help get the grandkids interested.
This Buddistick would compliment my Yaesu FT817ND out on field ops.
Thanks ZLHAMS for the link!
Great competition! Looking forward to using Buddipole with my IC-7000 on a beach somewhere!
I definitely could use this for my IC-703.
What a great addition to my to-go kit this kit would be!
I could use this with my FT-857D for my ARES effort.
I could used one since i have problem w/ my neighbor apartment and cant used any antenna
Getting one of these Buddipoles for free would be much better than making my own HF antennas.
A new Buddistick would be a great antenna for QRP field day operation this June.
I recently sold my condo in East Hampton, CT and moved to Milford, CT to be closer to work. My hour plus commute each way was older than old after 7 years. During my move I finally upgraded to General Class and have had a few opportunities to work HF. My main problem is I cant erect an antenna where I live. I am in a three story brand new apartment buidling on the second floor so there is no way I can sneak anything up. My apartment also faces the parking lot so anything sticking out the windows is out of the question too.
I’m in!
You have a great antenna product that is excellent for field day and any emergency need to get communications established ASAP.
I’m heavily involved in emergency communications with the Tennessee State Guard and Temmessee Emergency Management Agency…Will include package as part of unit’s rapid deployment kit.
I have heard great things about the Buddipole. It would be great for portable operations and demonstrations.
I love ham radio! And I could always use another antenna!
73 KD7SDY
Sign me up for the contest. This antenna would be great for working the MI QSO Party moving from county to county.
I have used one in the past and enjoyed it very much 73 N5ARK
Win
I have been looking at getting one of these for the family camping that we do.
I would love to try this portable antenna.
73 de AD4Y Miguel
South Florida, USA
I live in a HOA managed community with strict antenna requirements. This antenna system wouldallow me to easily set up and then dismantle my antenna. An added bonus is that I can now take my FT-897D with me on road trip vacations.
I work 100% QRP, and I would love to have a Buddistick to use while hiking. I’ve used wire antennas but if I’m in a place with no tree’s Im out of luck. Monoband hamsticks are just too difficult to carry around hiking. The Buddistick will solve that problem. I’ve seen several videos with hams using Buddisticks, so I know they work, and they are easy to set up.
But that’s how I would use a Buddistick.
73
Mike
KA7PLE
I plan on using my BuddiStick at Double Peak Park in San Marcos CA. I am planning on purchasing the FT817 in the next month and am currently investigating battery packs, wind turbine and solar charging for the packs. Hope to purchase the HF Packer amp to go with the radio. My son is a film major at Cal State Long Beach so we will be doing some really cool videos to post on Youtube.com and other sites.
73’s to all – look forward to talking on HF soon, N6MJS
I want it!!
I could a antenna
The plan is to hike straight to summit of Pinnacle Mtn. and fire up my K2 this spring!
Would like to use this camping with the scouts
mountain topping!!
Buddie Stick would sure work well with my Yaesu FT817 when i go camping.
Nice website.
The Bud-pole would be great for Camping trips!
Geat contest! *fingers crossed*
Sign me up! Can always use another antenna especially a portable one.
I am new to AR and very much like the idea of combining outdoor activities and AR and therefore would use it being exploring and learning all about portable/QRP operations.
Occaisionally, I borrow a buddy-pole antenna when I attend an emergency practice drill. I mount it on the ladder to the back of my old 17-foot travel trailer.
I do a lot of portable ops with my Kx1. the Buddipole would be great for that.
Saw the link on QRZ.com and thought I would sign up. Thank you very much for the chance at a great product. 73, de N8YP
Have been interested in one for my QRP portable activities. Would love to own one!
Woo hoo! That would be great for my condo patio!
I would use this antenna As my base rig’s antenna and take it to the lake for field day..
nice to go camping with
I’d use the Buddipole in my backyard as a temporary base antenna, and carry it with me on my travels to use as a portable station antenna (thus having a radiation pattern better than my mobile HF asntenna).
This is a great contest….sign me up
great contest, thanks 73…de Ed
Looks like something that would come in very handy for emergency shelter ops and for Field Day.
I would use it for Field Day, operating portable on vacations, and for emergency communications.
I do a lot of portable ops with my KX1. The buddipole would be great!
I am working on my General ticket; it would be a great first HF antenna for me!
I’m not lucky at winning prizes but it’s still exciting to have a chance at such a great little portable antenna.The Buddistick Deluxe would be a great addition to any amateurs equipment. 73
I would love to have an antenna for my earthquake kit as versatile as this one.
I am going on a road trip this summer in my VW Bus. I will be staying at many campgrounds for one night only. This antenna would save me time setting up. Throughout the year we go camping for the weekend.
You have an interesting web site. Thank you and good luck, 73
de AB3EH
This antenna, once we receive funding, will be the primary deployable antenna for our Community Emergency Response Team. Slowly building things up and the Buddipole will fit in nicely with our plans.
The use of the Buddistick will be two-fold. I have two girl children, ages 10 and 6. Both are Girl Scouts. Both of my girls have begum to show interest in my use of HF radios. I use radio for MARS, DX and Rag Chewing (although my time is limited by family as far as the rag chewing). Through the years I have noticed a severely limited number of females on the air. So my thoughts are through the Girl Scouts and camp outs (we usually go up to the Blue Ridge Parkway and Appalachian Trail) I could help interest and influence young girls to become engaged in Ham Radio and hopefully nudge them into electronic theory and possible engineering pursuits. Wire antennas are fine, but take time that causes a loss of interest due to limited attention spans. A Buddistick would significantly hasten getting on the air time. I know a large ambition – but sometimes dreams come true.
I would use the antenna with my KX1 QRP mobile!
This package would be great for our Field Day in the Sierras!
i would like to try one for field day and also just in my back yard. thank you
Try again
Hi guys thanks for this giveaway. If I was lucky enough to win this antenna would be used on one of my trips out west to The Badlands,The Needles or to Toadstool State Park in western Nebraska. We (my friend and I my wife deems these places as to dry,dusty and no deals hi} are planning a trip out to the Moab area so maybe in a couple of years you might hear it from there with my trusty SGC2020 .
Would be great for camping!
Great prize, would love to have for vacations
I would use the antenna on field day.
Would use it with an FT897D on vacations and with QRP rigs for summertime deck operation from home.
I’ve always dreamed of backpacking and operating from the great outdoors!
I would love to win this for field day.
This is a great help traveling antenna, ideally well-matched to all HAM operators who loves to travel and do hiking activities….For emergency stations as well in times of catastrophe…73′
Just started QRP operating and have been looking for a good portable antenna. This would be perfect for that
I received my license in October of 2010 and immediately found a home with QRP and the digital modes. However, in December I accepted a temporary job assignment which moved me from my rural high desert California town to the big city – Washington, DC.
Alas, I enjoy a challenge and I brought my trusty ICOM IC-718 with me and bought a B&W AP-10A apartment antenna. So here I am on my 9th floor apartment and the B&W does an OK job. However, the Buddistick should be superior for an apartment terrace and that would be the choice to get out of the high rise jungle here.
Next, I found a prime spot on the roof and I would make the Buddistick the center piece of my “new” 20 story tall antenna. Very cool!
When I return to California, the next use would be for SOTA work as I enjoy hiking. Ahh — I can see it now – 11,000 foot high antenna better known as Telescope Peak.
This antenna would be the enabler for years of ham radio enjoyment. Thanks for your consideration.
73s – W3ISZ
It would make a great temporary antenna for condo use.
I would use the B=Pole at our club remote sessions every week. Lots of area hams participate and I would be proud to show off the Buddy-Pole.
Looking forward to receiving my Buddistick, camping season is just about upon us. It
will be a nice companion to my Argonaut V.
I would love to win the Buddistick as I enjoy portable QRP work with my FT 817 and would like a small vertical antenna that would be easy to take on trips. 73 and tnx.
I sure would love to have one for camping and use with my 817nd
This would be a great antenna to have when I make trips to visit my parents and my sons who live in other states. Thank you,73
WOW! Some lucky person will win an antenna for the cost of shipping. I hope it’s me.
I have read about it,definitly need one one for my newly asigned shelter responsibilities. I am a new ham and already have made my General and now studying for Extra. Wheter I win or not,great product and who ever wins…CONGRATS! 73’s KB1UZE
As a newly minted ham – I will if i win the buddidtick I will need to obtain a Yaesu 857 , and push on to my General ticket.
Thanks for the opportunity
73
KC9VTK
I have the Elecraft K2. The Buddypole would be nice for portable operations.
Looks like a well designed and manufactured piece of kit.
Looks like the perfect companion for the FT-817ND I am dreaming of buying.
I am an avid qrpp operator, and antenna’s are the key to success. I have drooled over the buddistick, read reviews, heard reports, and worked people using them. Unfortunately for me, much of my money goes to help other people, I guess fortunately for them. I always put myself last, and usually feel guilty if I want to buy something for me, because it takes from others. This would be a nice thing to happen to me, but then, it would also be a very nice thing to happen to another ham. I will get one some day, it is on my list after a yellow Camaro, etc. I tell my little brother that all my money goes toward helping him, and that he’s my Camaro. Same I guess with the antenna. Anyhow, some lucky person will enjoy this, and if not me, I will be happy for them. Best wishes. John W3IK
Looking forward to receiving my Buddistick, camping season is just around the corner
and it will go nicely with my Argonaut V.
Great antenna for operating portable on HF.
Just got a Ten Tec R4030 and want to try the Buddistick out on my deck and up in the Smoky Mountains. thanks 73 Wink
Please add me to your list. The Buddistick is a antenna I sure could use at the house, and the beach vacations!
73′ Dave
If I won the Buddipole, as soon as I got done pinching myself, I would immediately hook it up to my Yaesu FT-857D. Then, I would crank the power all the way down and try every mode of communication at my disposal. After a few contacts for the log book, I would let my radio club know I had the best portable HF antenna system made in my shack for emergency communications. My wife & I would take weekend trips to My. Mitchell to do some qrp work as well. If it is possible to wear out an antenna, I would make mine Hollar UNCLE!
I would love to have the antenna for mobile use.
I’ll use it with my K1, 817, or 9040.
I would love to take this along for the Boy Scout activities. Whether its JOTA or just a get together, the boys would love to play with a neat setup like this.
I would use the Buddystick to do Summits on the Air from one of the mountains in my area. Having an active SOTA station on the air in South Carolina should bring a pile-up as there are not that many, if any, SOTA active amateur operators in the area. I have always wanted to try the event, and I have a rig capable of going portable, but the antenna has been one of the hurdles I have been challenged to overcome. The highest point in SC is less than an hours drive for me. I surely could use that prize.
Sign me up!
I would be interested in seeing the capabilities of this antenna, I built a home brew similar to the Buddistick and so far it works decent. Made contacts in Moscow, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ireland, Canada ect. My homebrew seems to work, but it does look like the Buddistick is easier to setup and more compact.
this ia a good portable antenna.
Sign me up for the prize. Would be great for my first IOTA expedition coming up in July! 73’s Frank
I’ve seen some pictures of hams in the field using these, looks really handy for portable operations. Would be an asset to any hams kit. 73
As a volunteer member of the Indiana Department of Homeland Security ( State RACES Ham Team) This would be use full in my go kit, and as well when doing events in the field.
73 Steve
I would like to teach my sons while using this portable antenna to ignite their interest in ham radio. We would need to get an HF rig possibly a FT857D to talk to the world. Thanks for the opportunity to win this package.
I think this would be a nice antenna to take with me for portable operating. It looks like it would not take up very much s[ace in the mobile.
73s Robert
I have worked several stations with BuddiPole Antennas and I am always amazed at how STRONG their signals are, even under marginal conditions.
BuddiPoles and BuddiSticks are Serious Portable Antennas !!!
I hope to win for my ham radio club and portable DXpeditions to IOTA NA-111.
73,
Dennis N3DG
PennARC President
eQSL Board Member
wud like to try some portable hf with that setup
tnx for having the contest
73
Great idea. Sign me up.
I would use to talk to my Dad when I move to Pennsylvania. He lives in Iowa.
I would the the buddistick Island operating, Camping, and EComm…
Dan N9BAV /AG
Would love to try this out at next Field Day! Good experience working the Budi-crew when they were in J6-land.
73’s!
-Troy W9KVR
Love the buddypole!
Sign me up! Our college club could use something like that this summer when we go camping. 🙂
I’m a QRP op who really likes the smell of salt air and the sweet sound of cw from the NC coast.
Pretty cool set up the Buddistick™ Deluxe Package. Sign me up.
I’ve been threatening to try portable QRP for some time and the Buddistick would be just the thing to push me over the edge!
Something like this is what I could use on the back of my old, tiny Toyota pickup and IC-7000.
After I park somewhere, of course! So, sign me up!
Having moved to a downsized place, the Buddistick would be an ideal solution for me!
Thanks for the contest offer. I love operating portable and currently use a PAC-12. I’ve had my eye on a Buddipole as a sturdier alternative. Will be activating several SOTA summits while in Ireland in May and would love to have the Buddipole as my portable antenna.
73
Sign me up. It would be great to take to the park or beach with my FT-817. I have also been off the air a few days lately because the winds we wave been getting has put my wire on the ground several times. Since I can’t afford to buy a vertical or better supports it would make a great back up antenna while I make repairs.
Great product….need one!
Looking forward to using my new Buddistick!
I’d like to try the Buddistick both mobile and portable as a vertical and as a rotatable dipole.
This is really cool. Thanks for the opportunity to throw my hat in the ring!!
I’ve met Budd and his team at the Orlando Hamcation…they’re the nicest folks you’ll ever meet.
If I win, then I’ll be taking one or two fellow ham on a mini-DXpedition way out into the Everglades where we’ll do breakfast & BBQ on the grille and DX from a genset for a weekend 🙂
Yeah!
PS–Haven’t figured out what we’ll do for lunch…
Oh wait,granola bars!
73!
I’ve long admired the Buddistick as 95% of my hamming is QRP portable, usually from one of the local parks due to antenna restrictions where I live.
I’d be more than willing to pay the cost of shipping to have such a highly portable HF antenna system for my KX1 and K1.
Haven’t tryed your antenna, I travel up into the Pocono(PA)mountains alot and would like to give it a try.
Take the antenna to Field day!!! Show kids @ park to get them interested. Camping!
Nice site by the way…
Sounds like a great deal. Thanks
I would use the Buddistick on field day and several other outings
I participate throughout the year.
Thanks for the opportunity!
73
Jimmy K4KHV
I’m excited.
The Buddistick Deluxe package looks like a great product in a really nice form factor. Can’t wait to see it in operation!
Sign me UP too. Would love to use it at field day and on vacation.
This is a great offer! Sign me up! I would love to try some portable operating.
An ideal antenna for backpacking!
I saw the bud-pole in ooperation at Field Day , very nice setup
This would be great to have for the family when we go to the Farm.
WOW, I would love to have a Buddistick to use of the evenings while at the hunting or fishing camp. I may even get into field day then.
I could use this antenna to go portable with while i am fishing here in South Mississippi. 73
Great to have for Field Day.
Just what I need for operating portables from the lighthouses here on the OR coast. Much simpler than going through the effort of throwing wire up in the air.
Look for us on weekends from time to time and during the International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend event, the third weekend of August, every year.
A great little antenna for my soon to be finished QRP rig.
If selected, I will use this Buddistick antenna in the field with my Elecraft KX1, especially in places where there is no support for a wire antenna. Thank you!
If selected i would like to give this antenna as a gift to my husband. 73
A lot of my operation is portable. The Buddistick would be a great addition to anyone’s portable setup.
I am in the USA as well, so I guess that shipping is free huh? It says shipping from USA to where you are, so…
It would be my challenge to Worked All States CW or Mixed mode using just the Buddistick. I wonder if any ham has made an attempt to do this ever?
73
—Bob ka9bhd
Wow!
Cool antenna to take camping and traveling to use with my KX1 rig. (Especially in those hotels/campgrounds with no trees nearby.)
I have always wanted one of these. The ad says used by Special Forces.I can use mine on special weekend’s.
Id use my Buddy stick on camping trips.
I would use it for field day, and for everyday work.
I would love a buddipole! I’ve been thinking about getting one but I’m a poor college student. It would be a fantastic addition to our club for portable and emcomm ops as well as public events…they’re so fast and simple to set up.
Always wanted a Buddy Stick to use with scouting, field day.
Ive had my general class license almost a year now. I live in an apartment with a very strict CC&R, not even allowed TV or satellite dishes which means I must go portable 100% of the time. I am also disabled with back problems so stringing and raising wire antennas while portable is out of the question. The only moderate success I’ve had so far is with a collapsed military whip attached to my ATU while it sits on the ground. I could really use a solid antenna system like the Buddipole.
I’ve been wanting to get into HF but don’t have any room for a dipole or beam or anything, and a friend of mine had one that I got to use for a moment. It’s a great portable antenna and doesn’t require a tuner at all. It’d be a perfect match for my FT-857.
At this time we only have a 80M dipole, it would be great to have a multi band antenna to go along with it. Sounds like it would be a good antenna to take on our anniversery trip so we can stay on the air away from home.
Outstanding performer for working digital modes as I have witnessed from many a contact. I’d like one just for the sake of being able to take that puppy with me and be able to operate outside of my QTH. And it’s a performer on SSB too.
It would replace or at least supplement my homemade version of the buddipole. Would be a Great addition to the portable station and IC-703
worked J79AVO with the 703 and homebrew vertical.
Being QRP in a covenant controlled community, the buddisiock is a great way to operate at home with a temporary antenna and not violate the CCR’s.
Retired and back in the hobby after 40 years.
Need an HF antenna for the beach!
I carry a radio on my moped, and that would be nice.
Nice offer on the portable antenna. It will be a great antenna for my FT-817 and KX1 QRP station. 73
Been looking for something to be set up efficiently and used for Emcomm, this seems ideal!
I’d like one for camping and such
GOOD LUCK ALL !!
Scott KB0NAZ
If I win, I will use this with OUR Elecraft KX1. 🙂 Thanks!
Looks very interesting for iota ops
Would love to use the buddistick when down at the lake. Thanks
i would use mine when i go fishing to show youngster’s what ham radio is all about.Learning and teaching is the best feeling you get when you help someone.
I have used one of these before with superior comments on my signal/audio during a Field Day activity. Whomever the lucky winner is will not be disappointed. A must for the hiker, camper, RVer, mountain topper, EMCOM or that remote site Field Day operation.
I’d use it to activate some surrounding WFF locations.
Being heavily involved in portable operations, I would use the Buddipole for conducting WIMOR (part of Winlink) data operations on HF. Given that this unit is compact and very portable, and can operate as an effective HF antenna, it is the perfect antenna to possess.
Best, Roger Bell- N4FPA
3/29/2011
I would love to use the buddistick when camping with my son and his scout troop.
I’d use the Buddipole kit for both light house activations, and IOTA work. My wife and I are both amateurs, and are very active in portable ops at both Lighthouses and Islands.
73
Steven
I would love to have one of these for my yaesu 857,and i promise i wont poke my eye out.I am new to amateur and have a hf radio but no general ticket,so i see this as a perfect carrot to get my butt busy and pass it so i can be loud and proud around the world with the best portable antenna system available,did i suck up enough? nuf said i should have this antenna because after all,i will pass the word around how wonderful it is,and im like always on a radio all day long anyway,what better advertising than me bragging about my new buddistick and where i got it,im not known to be quiet about anything.so,i know i have sold you on me being the best candidate for this awesome chance,because i cant afford the antenna because my radio cost too much,so im antennaless.ok thx doug kf7nio
Never used one but you all have me curious
We are a club station and really wanted to get a hold of one for portability — it would complete our emergency communications system as well as be a good antenna to show off during our college’s resource fair, a public event showcasing the varous clubs. In the past we used a wire wrapped about a 2M beam to recieve the CQ WPX CW contest; a buddipole would not only be eyecatching and portable, but would also serve as a *working* antenna hihi. Currently we only have a dipole on the roof of our club building, and cannot be moved.
Buddipoles are strong and well priced antennas, yet our club still is missing the funding from previous years — for four years the club died, basically, and this years class saved the club from losing thousands of dollars of space and equipment. Although we are operational, we are not portable, and our town is very centrally located in Missouri and could serve as an important link for the Madrid fault location in case of emergency. We hope to acquire a portable station just for that purpose — emcomms. A buddipole would be the best solution for us.
I would use it with my HW-8 when I motorcycle camp.
Finally, a simple to put up antenna system when I go camping. No more putting dipole wires in trees, and the pain of getting them back down.
Our local high school is starting an amateur radio station and I would donate the antenna to them. Thanks for the contest.
This would be great on a campout with our Boy Scouts!
I would use the Buddistick on camping trips. Gene AF6EG
I would use this antenna as an excuse to visit the most beautiful spots in Maine!
Since we travel with a 20ft trailer, the antenna would make a great additional to when we are on the road or stopped for the night. It would also come in handle for ARES operation, and use after a weather event where additional range or coverage is required.
73
I’ve been looking at the Buddistick Package to facilitate portable radio operations in the mountains of Colorado, but so far have been unable to afford the Buddistick on my college student budget. My sole rig is a Yaesu FT-817 that I use portable from a campground most weekends during the summer months, and wherever else my wife and I happen to be. I love operating in the great outdoors, but often trees are not nearby or convenient for wire antennas, and I think the Buddistick would excel in the portable antenna role. Thanks for giving us the opportunity to win the Buddistick Deluxe Package!
Luke
KD0FIN
I’d love to take that buddipole out backpacking and mountain topping!
Great video. Would use my buddipole at home and at field day. Really love the concept. Thanks.
Jeff KB8PIH
Just getting back into ham radio after several years away from it and the antenna would pair up nicely with my qrp rig.
Nice web site
would like to try one out for camping and other portable activities. Heard many on the air from parks, DXpeditions, etc. seem to work well, but would like to try one from the Xmit end. 73 gud DX
I am a fairly new Ham operator (just over 2 years), I am very active in Scouting. I would like to put together both Ham radio, and scouting. I have attended several camp-outs where I had to put up a dipole between trees to get the boys on the air. This antenna would make it easier to set-up and give me more options on locations (without trees) to set-up a portable station.
I live in Albuquerque and we have a lot of mountains and places to take day trips or weekend camping. The Goat Guy that makes all the Buddipole Youtube videos is a huge inspiration. I will do that some day. I have a 857d and portable battery already and tested in the garage. I just need an antenna to complete the kit and set off on an adventure. Also, Field Day is coming up! Thank you for offering this contest, Rick
Great for renters like myself! Still waiting for the landlord to notice the 40m dipole hanging from tree to tree across the yard!
I love backpacking with my Yaesu FT-817. Most times I throw a dipole up in the trees, or carry a 20 foot “Crappie-Stick” for a quick vertical. The Buddistick would be a great asset for operating portable on camping trips.
I would really like to give the antenna a workout with my portable Qrp operations. Currently using homebrew wire antennas, so looking for an easy setup and effective antenna. Tnx, Jerry N3ham
This would go great with my good ole Kenwood TS-50s!!!
Great contest. Nice Website. Thanks.
73 de Charles, K5CFJ
This would be GREAT to have and use with my 857D Great antenna for field day. 73 Charles
Would love to use it whilst mountain top portable here in South Australia!
First I had heard about the newsletter.
Perfect for Condo patio.
I’d like to use the Buddi-Stick to make my home station portable. I’d be able to pack up the rig and operate on the road.
This would be perfect for me to take my rig to the Mountains or Park to operate portable.
Well this may start my roving activities around the state giving out new counties and grid squares.
on the road in my truck
Going to take my General test in 3 days. Will need an antenna to work my new privileges, why not make my first antenna a buddistick.
Thank you for the opportunity to enter the contest.
This would be great for my hunting/camping trips!
Nice idea and a great product. Hope to win. CU on the band!!
Martin ve2bqa
I would use this highly portable antenna to travel around and share ham radio with potential new operators and others interested in HF operation.
I volunteer with 2 amateur radio organizations that are very active in public service. I am lacking an HF antenna that is easy to deploy and this would be the solution to my problem. This would make volunteering for these public service events more productive. Thak you for the opportunity to win this antenna!
What great timing to have a portable antenna setup.Thanks for the possible opportunity to play while traveling during cycle 24.
Bob
Thanks for sponsoring this giveaway. I have only been enjoying HF for a little over a year. The Buddistick has a great reputation and will be a part of my shack as it grows.
This looks like a cool antenna. Would love to use it at our field day set up.
Thanks.
Bob
This looks like a cool antenna. Would love to use it at our field day set up.
Thanks.
Bob
Sorry, forgot my call sign.
Living in the city with no place for an antenna, hiking in the back country is one of the only ways I can enjoy HF.
I would love to win this to use in my area for Emergency Communications as a Red Cross DAT member and ARES member
Please enter me! I would love to be able to use the buddystik for when I travel! I love the fact that you can adjust the whip for multiple bands!
Thanks
Can’t wait to win!
Would use the Buddy Pole for mountain-topping in the Bush.
Also in the park, to get the young folks interested in HAM RADIO.
Something as small and light as this is great gear for QRP Operating.
As a Scoutmaster who also teaches the Radio merit badge, I’d have plenty of opportunities to use this antenna during Scout field day exercises.
please enter me in the buddystik giveaway
thanks
It would be great to get this Buddistick as my first multiband ham antenna ever, on my first multiband transceiver ever, my “new” TS-440S/AT.
73 from Brazil.
I don’t have a Buddistick yet but if I win this, I’ll use it portable in state parks. Then I’ll be happy to tell you how I’ve used and enjoyed it.
Buddy poles work real good for emergency commos and Emcomm. In Alaska we use 80 Meters mostly, but the system is great support for other type of antennas.
I’m going to be QRV in Switzerland in May. It’d be great to win one of these and take it along!
I travel around the state of Texas and would love to be able to throw up a HF antenna quickly and easily.
Thanks,
John
hi, i would use it for areas and races events to show that you do not need a big station to communicate and also for emergeny events.
I really need a Buddistick!
The Buddistick is a great way to set up when you travel. Gives you a good antenna to communicate and doesn’t need any space at all.
Portable antennas like this are great for operating right on the coast, one of the beast places from which to operate radio.
It would go great with my Elecraft K1.
I travel a lot and this would be a great companion to the K-Line.
Would be nice to have for field but even more so for lazy summer afternoons in the park.
Thanks for the opportunity
Field day can be any day when you operate portable.
I have a KX-1! This would be great to go with it for backpack portable!!
Great! I hope I win!
I would love to try one of these for field day or an emcomm practice session to see how it works.
73, Jim
AD6WL
I will use this on my extended South American Vacation later this year.
I am a camper radio user, so from spring to fall I travel around in my camper and try to reach new places, this thing would be much sweeter then my wire setup there arnt always trees around to use as antenna masts!
My MP-1 broke. I need a new antenna for my FT-817
If I had a Buddipole. Hmm….. If I had a Buddipole I’d probably use it for HF portable. Surprise Surprise! LoL. It would certainly be an incentive to work HF portable anyway. I knew someone who brought one out to field day one year, and I thought it was quite interesting. However, I never was able to bring myself to fork out the cash for one. So a free Buddipole would be very nice. My portable station would probably consist of my FT-857d that I also use mobile and a gell cell battery.
Got a remote piece of land hidden in a valley way up in the hills, I’d like to take the K2 up there to see if it works to get out of that valley.
One of the main reasons I got into amateur radio was the ability to help others in times of disaster, “when all else fails”. It looks to me like the buddistick would be very handy in emergency situations as well as enjoying the hobby “mobile”. Thanks for the opportunity!
Thanks for the chance. I would use it at my cabin in the woods, for Field Day, and mountain topping! It would go well with my Argonaut-in-a-briefcase.
A Buddistick would be a great antenna to bring hiking with me!
It would be good for me. I am new to HF so I would use it to use out doors.
With my K2, on the beach where I live, obviously! I can see it now- me under the beach umbrella, an ice cold Corona in one hand, Heil handi-mike in the other, watching the bikinis in the surf… hey, stop hitting me!!! (My wife just walked into the room….) OK already, I WON’T be watching the bikinis… (fingers crossed behind my back…).
Maybe I’d take it to nearby Huntington Beach state park where there’s an old Spanish-style castle and put that location on the air. It’s close enough to the beach where my beach umbrella would come in handy. Naturally I’d take along my K2, a few ice-cold Coronas, and get close enough to the beach where I could watch the bikinis in the surf.. HEY!!!! Stop hitting me with that frying pan!!! OK, OK already!!! Just don’t hit me anymore! (Wife was watching me again!)
I know, I’d take it to a nearby island beach I know about where all the local nudie bar dancers lay out topless in the sun! Yeah, that’s it! Those bikinis in the surf don’t look so threatening to you now, do they wifey!!!
My personal space shuttle then comes back to earth, and I disembark… K2 in one hand, Buddistick in the other. A soft cooler full of Coronas slung over my back, binoculars across my chest, Me and my N2DAN Mercury key just lookin’ for a cool place to set up and operate that rocks, oh yeah!
I would like to use it for mobile operations especially for emergencies.
I would use it for portable/backpacking. Here there are a lot of mountains at 9,000 to 12,000 ft. My General ticket is just 3 days old and I’m itching to do some HF!
Would be most useful in my job as EMA Coordinator and taking our emergency communication trailer to any prolonged incident.
An interesting package.
Sign me up
My first look at AmateurRadio.com so I am exploring what is here. A Buddistick would be great, as I enjoy portable operating.
I have come to find out the amateur radio really isn’t about radios, and antennas, and propagation, and so on… It is about people and the the great friendships that you development with your fellow hams. This is the best hobby in the world!
73
Could you see a day at a quiet pond in the country? Or on your deck? Or at your in-laws at a cook-out? Or at a tail gate party? That could drum up some interest in ham radio.
interesting package. wouldn’t mind winning it
I would use the buddipole as a proper antenna to use with my ft897d as a portable setup. I am antenna restricted, hill top and mobile are my only choices these days.
Very cool, guys! It’d be cool to use in “stealth mode” in the tight quarters where we live.
BRAVO ZULU! Will use it in a antenna restricted area.
This would work great with my new ft 897.
I just built a “to-go” box with a 2m-440 radio and an HF radio-all in the same box. I would love to take a Buddi-stick and the to-go box to a park and set up on a picnic table and have fun operating!! It would be the perfect companion to my box!
I need a real HF antenna!
I would go up to the top of one of these mountains in West Virginia
And set up the BuddiPole and do some DX.
I live in the White Mountains of Arizona and like the world of QRP. Thanks to some major luck in trading I have ended up with two ideal radio configurations for taking on a hike or a week-end camp trip by one of our many lakes. My K2 is a 10 or a 100. The main radio is a loaded K2/10 with DSP, internal ATU and battery. Remove 6 screws, change the cover add an external battery and I have a K2/100…but no ATU. The other radio is a IC-7200. Kind of a 7000/7600/7800 in a water resistant, build like a tank field radio. QRP-100 watts.
In 2003 I lost it all. Job, home, truck and yes all my ham radio equipment. I am now in rebuilding my life and my hobby. Un-believable trades have given me radio I could only dream in having. This antenna would give me a truly fine antenna for the field and any EmComm that may happen in the future. Money is an issue but it will not stop me from spending my remaining years hamming (I am 63 this years and as I said I am starting over). So that is my story and my interest. The antenna would make my K2/10/100 and IC-7200 sing and touch others though out the world, something I do enjoy. Thank you for your time and consideration
73
Harry K7ZOV
im a qrp freak…would be perfect to add to the hf hiking kit
would be a great antenna for portable op with my FT-897 (currently used as a mobile in my Jeep)
Need a travel antenna for use in Greenland and Antarctica. Would be nice to operate from both ends of the globe on a Buddistick – K1LRZ
I would love to have this help me get back on air after having all my radios and gear stolen
Would be great to have one
Would lov to win this, live in, disable, looks easy to set up.
I would use this guy when setting up camp during bicycle touring. It looks small enough to fit in a pannier. Looks nice. Peace.
The way it stows in that carrying case is awesome! Looks very well thought out.
I would use my Buddistick when I move into town as I will most likely not be able to have a perminant antenna installed like I have now. Then, I can do the 1-minute set up and be on the air when the urge arises and not have to worry about cranky neighbors. 🙂
I will use when traveling to my Mother’s home on visiting weekends as she does not have room for wire. W0LEA
A great antenna!
love to have a portable antenna for fishing trips and camping, would be able to make my nets while not at home base.
SOTA QRP with a Buddistick would be so nice.
I’m in I would love to take it camping this summer
I would use the antenna in my restricked antenna area in my neighborhood and for portable use when camping.
Fantastic for camping and hiking.
Nice antenna and nice web site! Good luck to all the participants in the contest.
Great site maybe ill get lucky for once.
Josh
K4JNS
I would love to win this for my husband who is a true HAM,
I would like to use the antenna for field day, Tnks…73
Would be a great accessory for my 817.
With my FT-817 to demonstrate Ham radio to students.
Looking forward to using it on one of my many hiking adventures
Looks like a great product. I would love to try one out and work from a hill top. Sounds like a lot of fun!
Cool! This contest is circulating in a ham club in my area and I caught wind of it. Almost all of my hobbies involve being in the outdoors – the Buddistick would allow me to do some ham operating while on mountain bike rides in these beautiful WV hills! I already know on which trail I would set it up! I need to take advantage of my HF privileges, and this would be great for that.
Would be an excellent addition to my portable operation equipment.
This would be a great addition to my FT-817ND QRP station!
Nice antenna. Nice to win too.
Seeing that I live in an antenna restricted area, mobile home community, I need a good performing HF antenna. Presently I am running an end fed dipole that is 22′ long named “UltiMax 100”. I have it hooked to the shed about 12′ up, slopeing to maybe 22′ in a tree. It works, but not great. I have heard many buddisticks on the air, might be just what i need around here…
Just the ticket for Rover operations in my favorite contests.
I will use the antenna on my patio with my ICOM IC-7000.
Also for field days as I don’t currently have a portable antenna.
I would use this as a portable with my ft-817 for when I was at the oregon coast or when I travel to my daughters home in hawaii.
I will use the antenna on my back patio with my ICOM IC-7000.
The Buddistick is a great antenna for portable and HF Pack operating.
Sweet! Sign me up! I want to start activating some Summits On The Air and this would be great!
Would use the buddistick for portable setup at local events.
Neat setup. Everyone needs one.
N5HNX
Would use it portable at local events.
Would like to have a quick set up portable antenna for temporary operations. Bicycle races, active events for multi-sports, camping or visiting the local state park.
I have had QSO s with many hams on vacation using a Buddy Stick on the beach.
I think I would like to do that myself someday.
This would be great to take backpacking and for S.O.T.A. activations!!!
I do a lot of offroading and this system woud be perfect for portable ops from the campground or just the backwoods. So sign me up and if I win I’ll use the heck out of it.
The Buddy Pole set would be a perfect match for my FY817 for portable use.
This would be a perfect antenna for an apartment-dweller with a mobile HF rig!
This would be great, i live on main st and no where to put an antenna. The ability to put it up and take it down easily would be awesome. Good luck to all.
WOW! What an oppertunity. Setting up an HF go box for emcom with 100 watts or less on batteries.
Yes Yes YES! I want one!
What a GREAT mobile/portable solution!
The question is more along the lines of what wouldn’t I do . QRP from hill top to hill top , tour the Adirondack Peaks working DX QRP solar style . Even give her a test on field day. Most of all I hope I would earn myself a stack of portable QSL cards from around the world.
73 and thank you for the contest
With this I don’t even need to have a car!
HEY GREAT VIDIO ! I would use the BUDDY STICK for my emergency kit / fishing adventures around the states too keep myself buisey in between the ones that get away 73 FROM CAVE CITY ARKANSAS ….
Wow will work nice in the outdoors.
Thank you QRZ for posting.
Hope to win one.
73zz
I’d LOVE a buddistick! It was just a few days ago, even, that I discovered the buddistick and buddipole system – I was searching the web for a really nice, sturdy portable setup and this fits the bill perfectly! SIGN ME UP!
Pick me! Pick me!
Sounds good. Sign me up!
Hubby says I should sign up too!
What a great deal for a great antenna! I could really use this for many purposes, especially MARS work. Thanks for the opportunity to win a great prize.
I’d like to be able to get out in the field and make contacts and not be base station bound!
I’ve been interested in this antenna. Due to going to college and enlisting in the Navy, funding for it is a little bit short. I volunteer with the local Boy Scout trip, and need a portable antenna system to take on camping trips so I can show the scouts what Ham Radio is all about, and hopefully get them interested in the hobby!
well i could use one.
Pick me!
This would be a great teaching tool for our high school program!
How would I use my buddistick?
Well, I live on a VERY small lot and so I would pack up my rig and my buddistick and I would work from various hillsides in our area (lots of hills, but I live in the valley–go figure!). I would love to work some DX from high atop some hills overlooking the city.
I’d be happy to report on my adventures for your newsletter should I win –
Cheers!
Robert
I’d take it to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW)
If I would win this, I would give it to my buddy Charley (W3CWT) to use at his apartment. We have tried so many ways to get him on the air. This would do it. Great product.
73
Terry
Would make a good antenna package to use with my FT-817 on Field Day.
I will be away from my home while going through a series of Radiation treatments and the antenna would be a perfect match for portable set up at my temporary location.
I just found my old 10/15M dipole and started listening to the HF bands after 15+ years inactive. I’m in an apartment now, can’t mount it outside, and could really use a simple HF antenna I could use indoors. Hear folks I’d like to work on 80, 40 and 20, but never had an antenna to get on those bands at home.
would love to get one of those up and ready. hope to upgrade to general soon.
I’d like to use it on camping trips.
Looks like this would mate up with my FT-897D for fieldday and camping… Did not have much luck with the Super Antenna maybe this one will work the world…
yes please,my ft817 would be greatful.good site.
Looks like the perfect setup for going portable. Hope I win! 🙂
Thanks for a great contest. I’d love to see this used for portable setup in our local ARES club! 73
As a new ham, I’m looking to start equipping myself for my first steps into the realm below 2 meters. The Buddistick would be a great first antenna!
I’d use this at Field Day, the beach, the park, the mountains, wherever I go portable! What a kick it would be to win this beauty! Keep your fingers crossed ladies and gents! 73, Neil – N6VHF
What a fantastic idea for a contest prize! I had to sell the buddystick I had due to money problems and would love to have another one! Being retired and on a ‘fixed income’ now, this could be the only way I could have one again. Thank you!
WX4O
Wow! It would go great with my FT-817…W6ONG
Sure would be nice addition to my QRP hill topping efforts.
73 de LA1BRA tom
great product, great support, would love to have one.
73,
Bill
Always wanted to try one!
Like to have one for demos of amateur communication for the residents of this relatively isolated community here in Ketchikan Alaska
Gary
Would love to have as an addition to the motor home. Gets the kids curious and i really enjoy field ops with the family..
Thank you,
Steve Bluemel
I’d use it with my ft-817! I’ve built the home brew version and would really like to see if the factory built antenna is anything like my home brew one, if it is it rocks!
I would probably donate it to the Ham Club… once I played with it to be sure it works.
Sounds like a great antenna that could be used for limited space work in close quarters where one cannot put up a regular antenna and it seems that it would be a great antenna to put up or take down when you need to for possible storms or other interfering conditions. Sounds like antenna that could be quite useful in a variety of situations from going to the mountains to the beach to just having fun in the backyard with a small rig, antenna, and a bucket of cold drinks and the barbeque cooking!
Heard a lot about it and would be a great reason to venture below 50MHz.
I’ll probably give it to my husband… but he will have to do the dishes for a week.
I want in on the Buddipole.
I want in on the Buddipole
I would use it as a portable on top of one of the mountains near my QTH. Probably Double Peak Park in San Marcos. Or even when I’m travelling.
Good antenna for portable use on a boat!
Been looking into this antenna, would like to use is for FD and portable use camping.
Hi, it would be my intention to use this antenna both during travel but usually at my home QTH where a combination of available supports and permit requirements make the use of conventioal antennas a bit of a problem. Verticals are not effective due to limited space of an adequate radial systwm without which such antennas simply do not work. Thanks for the opportunity to say hello.
73’s
T. Durst W6PFW
Love to win it!
K6CDB
I have a friend who’s having some marital issues and had to move into an apt. No longer has use of his tower. He does have a 2nd story balcony so I think the Buddistick would be of fantastic to let him enjoy our hobby.
Thanks & 73
73 ..
Hopefully use it with my portable rig, more excuses to use it;)
Hey Just what I need I could use this out for a portable operation. Sign me up! If I win please check out my page I will have pictures of me and this setup on QRZ and my facebook group page called ham it up.
73 Steve
I’ve got some qrp setups that I want to make 100% portable, and this would be perfect for getting on the air from pretty much anywhere.
I have wanted to purchase one of these for our search and rescue unit. Hope to win.
Wow, Winning this; it would be put to good use for emergency coms at our local cash strapped volunteer emergency organization. A real asset!
From the 21st floor “observation deck” of the hi rise I live in.
I saw my friend using this type of Antenna and it was perfect hope that i can get one 🙂
I live in a townhouse with restrictive covenants concerning antennas. Would use the Buddipole on roadtrips during the warmer months.
Great for camping here in northern Arizona
I have the buddipole deluxe and works perfectly. I will probably give it to one of my friend if I am the lucky HAM.
Nice one!
If i get it what am i going to use it as/for?
Well, i guess the best it will fit in to /portable operation of Nature Reserves in UAE/Asia. A6FF program. That is just getting started here.
And other portable weekends, SOTA, or simple camping with some radio activity.
And of course after every small or major /p .. there has to be a photo report to share with others… and Buddistick Deluxe will sure be on the pictures shared 🙂
73!
GL to everyone participating
I would love to get a buddistick
As an Elecrafter (K3 #3616)I’ve seen many positive posts about the buddipole antennas and it would be great to use it in the desert during field days operations. On the technical side it would be interesting to see how the antenna reacts to very high temperature difference between day and night. Last year, middle of May, temperature was rising up to 53ºC.
Bst 73’s
Philippe
A65BI (F5LTB) Ex 9Q1TB 2003-2008
Our fellow ham Gerald A65CB got this Buddipole Antenna and he always share a good experience regarding the performance when using it.
I think I will consider to have one someday.
I would use this antenna attached to a rubber dingy in the middle of my swimming pool. Great picture for a QSL card too!
Hello,
I could perfectly use this somewhere at the Beach because by no chance I can put a Antenna up where I live.
Best 73
Andreas
A65BW ( DL9BAF / 8Q7DL )
The buddipole/BuddieStick is perfect for field operations, and would be used for just that!
I would use for emergency deployment for ARES/RACES and Red Cross sheltering.
73 and good luck!
I’VE SEEN TWO OF YOUR ANTENNAS,ONE AT A CLUB MEETING WHERE SOMEONE BROUGHT IT TO OUR CLUB MEETING IN ORANGE CALIFORNIA.THE OTHER WAS RECENTY BOUGHT BY ANOTHER CLUB MEMBER WHO WANTED TO TRY IT DURING FIELD DAY AND HE ALSO WANTED IT AS AN EMMERGENCY GRAB AND GO KIT IN CASE OF AN EMMERGENCY.HAVING SEEN THE UNIT I’D LOVE TO WIN ONE.
Great antenna – seems to be perfect for my SOTA activities!
I am working on emergency digital communications and would use the buddistick for field operations.
I need a sneaky low profile antenna
I will use mine for portable work 🙂
A Buddipole would be great to play with !!
Thx for your efforts !
I would use the antenna when camping!
Would love to have one for QRP / Travel use.
73
Great for camping trips in the Black Hills.
WOULD BE A GREAT ANTENNA FOR MOUNTAIN TOP PORTABLE/CAMPING OPERATIONS. WOULD BE GREAT TO USE WITH MY FT-897 FOR A QUICK DX’ING KIT OR EMERGENCY/FIELD DAY OPERATIONS.
Best portable antenna money can buy.
i love buddiestik and would use it during feilday and camping with my family, i would love to have 1 for quick emplementation during (god forbid) didaster response. thanks 73
I love going field portable with my FT-817, having an antenna like this will mean no more trying to find trees that are about the right height and distance apart for my various dipoles (always fun to untangle too hihi)
Would be perfect for that – plus field days, and in times of emergency…
The other obvious use – public demonstrations – never anywhere to put up a HF antenna – and this can be self contained effectively 🙂
Great idea
I am new to amateur radio, mostly using my husband’s radio gear. Would love some of my own that he would want to ask me to use hihi
Club station, we have just moved club rooms and no longer have any antennas to use – this would be perfect for us until we can find a more suitable club room where we can once again setup permanent antennas
Would be a good antenna on my full-time housebus mobile home. So … gotta be in to win. Good luck all!
would try buddystick for main antenna
Would love to try the Buddistick with my FT1000/FT-857D at 935 meters ASL in OD5 land.
Thank you for offering up this great prize.
Good luck to all ! 73 de OD5TX Michel
I have an FT-817 and this would be perfect for backpacking SOTA expeditions!
Sounds like a cool prize, and a deal for one lucky winner. Sign me up
This would be great for my Danmark-Holiday this year! vy73 de DL4TH
Hello, If I was lucky enough to win I would take the antenna system with me camping all over the Adirondack Mountains and surely make many, many contacts.
Anybody could make a buddistick using Home Depot materials but making it compact and commercially available is just an awesome idea. Parts are made of good quality. Whether I win this buddistick or not, it will soon be an addition to my qrp setup. 73. Al, KF7DMY
I would use the BuddiPole when I am in the woods hunting, fishing, or just camping. I have a TenTec transceiver which I currently operate into a long wire strung into the trees, but this package would be MUCH better.
Dave, W8HSE
Don’t disqualify me for saying this, but I’d love to do a “shootout” between the Buddystick and my SuperAntenna MP-1 … with my FT-897D supplying the wattage. I saw the Buddystick at Pacificon last year and was VERY tempted to buy one – but money is so tight these days.
I would use it in my go kit and on field day.
I would love to win a Buddipole antenna. I have always wanted one but have not been able to afford one yet. I would keep it in my Emergency Kit along with the rest of my digital gear. I would love to be able to use it for camping, field day, special events, and also to use with the students in the Ham Radio Classes that I help teach.
Thank you for the opportunity to win this great antenna system.
Roxann AB7HO
Never win, Larry
Would love to win this antenna.
I’d use it at my remote work site in Alaska!
Great! as a emergency responder i can easily set-up this during disaster. Hope to win the contest.
great website and info center thanks much 73.
This would be a great addition to set up at field day.
I would use the Buddistick for amateur radio demonstrations, mostly for school kids and on camping trips.
Earl n0chn
Great product, I hope I will win. I already own a Buddipole since 2004.
Sounds like a good antenna for going out doing QRP on a nice day in the woods, to have some fun.
Yes, you may quote me.
Ray W9RAP
This sounds like something I could use doing my lighthouse stations. Portabble and multi-band. Count me in!
Count me in! Love the website!
73,
D
I would like to use it for qrp portable operation with my small wonder labs qrp transmitter., and also use it with my club on field day.
Great contest, a Buddipole would be a great addition to the FT-897D for outdoor work!
73
Would be perfect for those lunch time QSOs on top of a mountain!
The Buddistick package would be a most welcome and perfect companion to my IC703+.
read a little each day from Amateur radio dot com
Buddipole antenna looks like it should be in everyone’s emergency bag
I would love to have this for use when I travel. I know a few people who them and say there are great. This e-mail will be changing in a few days.
I would use the buddipole for emcomm purposes.
i want it thanks>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I hope I win
This would be a great addition to my wire antennas used when I travel in the motorhome.
Every year in May a group of six couples head out on a Mini DXpedition activating an Island and/or Lighthouse on the East Coast of Canada. The Buddistick would be a super addition to our wire antenna system!! As well, through out the year we take part in Field Day and Lighthouse activities in our area.
This would go well with my FT-817 and K2 out in the field. It would be a nice addition to my all band/all mode go kit.
I love the story of the buddistick and how it developed. I hope to come up with a Amateur radio product that seems irresistible to the ham community too!
A great addition to my station
Great contest!
What an excellent field day solution!
Good emergency antenna
[email protected]
Count me in, I need a Buddistick for my FT-817 for Field Day!
I would use it portable. It would make a great portable antenna for my K2.
73,
Ned, W8VFM
Along with my K2 it would be a perfect antenna to go out and show new potential HAMs what the hobby is all about.
I would then be able to go portable.
What a great contest and a nice offer.
I’ve heard a lot about these antennas. I would use it portable, I like to operate Rover in the state QSO Parties and this would be a nice setup to use.
73, Bob
This is how I got started in Ham Radio back in Late 50’s
on six meters on mountain tops in VT. The antenna was a halo or whip
type
Oh my goodness. This would be *so* sweet to own. I’d finally be able to get on bands my radio can use, but my antenna doesn’t. Having an antenna that can be setup quick-time would be a boon for my HF experiences. And to the XYL’s delight, not a permanent fixture!
I’ve never owned a Buddipole product, which is really too bad for me since I’m a big fan of supporting local businesses.
Thanks for offering this to us and good luck to all of you!
f, k2ncc
I have several friends that use Buddipoles and really have a blast operating protable. I would like to have as much fun as they do… looking forward to trying out the Buddistick!
I would love to have this, I live in a apartment and can’t have a antenna. This would be great at the beach 5 blocks from my home.
73
Mike
our club has used the buddy pole at field day and out door events .
A great item and loads of fun
Use it on my travels to operate QRP.
Would be great for hill-topping here in Texas!
I formed an Adventure Radio group years ago. The purpose of the group is to operate QRP from public locations such as parks, museums, and special events. The most difficult part of operating is where and how to install an antenna. We have tried dipoles, NIVIS antennas, end-fed wires, and verticals. One member of our group has a Buddy Pole and only takes him about five minutes to erect his Buddy Pole antenna. While the rest of us usually takes up to an hour to erect a proper antenna. He even set up on top of a railroad coal car and at the edge of a waterway inlet. You can’t to that very easy without proper supports. So it’s clear that the Buddy Pole antenna is the best answer to operating portable. Everything you need to erect an antenna is carried in a small canvas bag. I have decided the Buddy Pole antenna is the best antenna for fast portable operation and choices of both vertical and horizontal radiation.
Dan, Ni9Y
Mishawakaka, IN.
I operate portable so I am interested!
73’s
I’m also an apartment dweller…have heard much about these..would love one!
Just bought an FT-817. Would sure be gtreat to have a nice antenna to go with it!
We have a small lot…not much space for even a dipole. Would love one of these!
This would be the perfect antenna to set up outside my ground blind while bow hunting turkey this spring!!!
If I had this Buddipole system, I’d get the rig out of the house and go to our annual Field Day and set it up and contribute to the effort. That would be a great motivator!
First of all, thank you guys for the contest! I plan on using my Buddistick mostly on the beaches of Connecticut seeking distant contacts on 10 meters. As my skills increase and I pass the General exam, I hope to chase 20 meters signals from all over the world. My main interest in amateur radio is mobile QRP and the idea of setting up my shack beachside with my 7wt flyrod in the truck ready for action when the bands slow down sounds like the best day I could have. Fishing and radio, could there be a better life?
As an ARES AEC and member of SATERN, I would add it to my go kit. Portable antennas are necessary for setting up at shelters and PODs. The small package and great reception make the Buddi-Stick and excellent choice for this operation.
This seems to be a versatile antenna that can be adapted to several uses including EmComm, Field Day, demos, camping, contesting,and DXpeditions.
FB & 73,
Bart N3GQ
This would be the perfect antenna for weekend and qrp.
This would be great for camping, field day, and etc. Great Contest, Great Ham Blog!
I’d like to use the antenna to operate from the Scenic Highway in WV – altitiude of about 4400 feet.
Thanks for the opportunity to win a Buddistick. Should I win, I would donate my Buddistick to my local club, Plumas Amateur radio Club here in the Northern Sierras, to use for EmComm with ARES/RACES and Field Day operations. 73
I really love this antenna for field operation
Sign me up!
I would use it for club events – special event stations, field day, etc.
The ideal antenna to compliment my IC-703+ when operating portable. Thanks for the opportunity to win one. Cheers.
What a great antenna for mobile operations in the mountains
Great idea here and the antenna is a nice backup or main antenna.
Great Site ! Great Promo for a Great Product ! I do some portable PSK ops with FT817 and FT857 Buddistick looks a lot easier than a 31 foot vertical hihi!
As a novice the next ‘big’ step will be going outdoors and get rid of the city QRM and experience amateur radio as it must have been many years ago. The crisis hit me hard and I am now without a job. As my motto is always going for the best (products)Buddystick and pole are currently way out of my league. I know, i know I can make do with a piece of wire 😉
Regards
maarten
PD4M
Netherlands
A buddistick would be perfect with my KX1 for use on hiking trips. Enter me in the drawing!!
Lots of portable work.
As a newly licensed General Class Operator a Buddistick Deluxe package would be of great assistance to me in getting started with portable ops!
Summer is coming and I would love to be able to day camp in our local parks and play radio at the same time.
I like going remote and battery operated. This would definitely lighten the load, and make for an interesting contest weekend or Field Day at a remote campsite!
That antenna would go nicely with my Elecraft K1
I am devoted to QRP portable and hilltopping. The Buddistick is a tried and proven antenna for such activities. I would be honored to add the Buddistick to my field pack. Thanks. 73.
I am a Michigan/Florida Snowbird and reside in a condo in both states. One of the problems of condo living is not being able to place an antenna to support my hobby. The BuddiPole will fit this solution very well as it would enable this antenna placement in a temporary rather than permanent setup.
A lot of portable work.
Great for kayak camping!
The buddistick would be a great way to take an antenna
when I visit my mom.
This antenna will work great with my FT-857 & portable ops !
I would use it with my Ft-897 to go portable. We have plenty of mountains here in Easter Kentucky and it would make a great addition.
Sure would be nice to have before Field Day
Thanks for the sweepstakes
I’ve been interested in the Buddistick for some time now. Would be a great way to acquire one! 🙂
I presently live in antenna restricted environment and would use the ‘stick both at home and portable.
I’ve heard good things about the Buddistick antennas, and would love to win one and give it a try. Thank you for the opportunity!
A cool prize!! To be used for portable operations with my ft-900
I have a Buddipole and would love to had to it
Love the Buddipole antenna system. Foolishly sold mine a while back for financial reasons. Now,with two FT-817’s I would love to have one. I would use it for portable and RV use as well as for my ARES work.
I would use it for my SOTA (Summits on the Air) activations. Spring is here.. so a BuddiStick would do just great.
I plan on using the Buddistick with my Kx1 to activate SOTA peaks.
It sure would be cool to have a buddiestick to go with my FT-827.
K5RJH
Thanks for the chance to win a BuddiStick. It would be a good emcomm option.
I currently use a BuddiPole portable antenna for all kinds of ops with an FT-857D with fantastic results. Be patient with yourslf when you first start using it to get familiar with the tuning … then have fun!
I would use the buddipole for portable operations activating a Lighthouse or island, on field day.and on vacations, it is so compact it would travel well.
This could be a great birthday present to myself!
Satisfied user of the BP and BS. Have taken to many states in the US
as well to Asia.
73, KC2TBA, Fun
Very active group on Yahoo: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Buddipole/
this would be a fun antenna to use at a park or while up on a hill making contacts in the summertime. plus it would be a great antenna to have in your bag in case of emergency operations
I have had buddipoles for nearly ten years, I’ve had 3 of them through the years I also have a buddi pole set up on a three wheal recumbent bike almost an exact duplicate of Budd’s W3FF’s bike.
As far as I am concerned you cant beat the buddipole for portability, customer support and performance.
don
‘NE1NH
A perfect matching antenna system for my IC-703 portable QRP rig! Sign me up!
Great site. Looking forward to the giveaway conclusion. 73’s, Jim
This would be great for my desert excursions, weather spotting, and emergency comm use!
Just in time for this year’s hurricane season.
Loved the video.
Fred
I have a homebrew Buddistick that works well that I use w my FT817nd. I have my setup clamped to my wheelchair. With a quick assist from my XYL I assemble the coil and whip and attatch it to a painters pole and my XYL clamps it to my wheelchair and away we go.
Have had good reports so far.
73’s
David, KJ6GLX
Great contest and antenna. Perfect for emergency operations, especially on non-ham (MARS etc) frequencies, where trap antennas don’t work.
Sounds great! I’d use the Buddistick for all my portable and emergency contacts…
Looks like a great product. Hope I win so I can try one out.
The buddistick would be a great asset to our ARES group, when running test and on deployments!
Sounds great – count me in.
Would be a great addition for HF outdoors.
I would use it on camping trips and weekend outings.
I use my Buddipole mostly in a vertical configuration. I operate it from my back yard and our beach parks here in Melbourne Beach, Florida.
Don’t you just love this antenna.
John…
I don’t have a Buddistick, yet. But would like one for portable operation.
Pretty versatile piece of gear… used in the city where masts and towers are banned, to quick set up at the cottage or rail mount on the boat.
Peter
Great for emergency antenna set up
Great for Dxpedition
Great for Campers
Great for SOTA
BUDDIPOLE THE BEST ANTENNA. I like to have one. 40 to 2 meters, wow
73 4F1VS
I would use the Buddipole for EMCOMM.
I am extremely excited to win this antenna!
I am just starting to get heavily into bicycling, and this antenna appears to be the Must Have antenna for when I put my radio on my bike 😉
Great for emergency antenna set up, DXpedition, SOTA
BUDDIPOLE THE BEST ANTENNA. I like to have one. 40 to 2 meters, wow
I would use it in my RACES/ARES go kit.
I would use a Buddipole for Pedestrian Mobile
Thanks
I would use the Buddstick to run QRP from my home QTH and Portable trips. Thanks Chris for a great prize, and to Amateur Radio for this opportunity.
73 – gh
KK4AIG
I would use the Buddistick for qrp operations of western. North Carolina.
Will be using the Buddie pole as part of my HF go kit and every weekend as well out at our family campsite on the river. Might even try marine mobile as we fish the river at some point.
Fran Higgins W8RZN
ARES
I would use the buddistick for qrp operations in the mountains of wesern north carolina.
I have been looking at the buddistick to go with my Yaesu 857D. I enjoy working portable and I have been looking and reading the reviews. I’m going to Maui in May and I think the Buddistick would be perfect for my needs.
73′ and good DX, John KI6NIC
I bet it would play great with my K1 while camping….Hoping!!!
Will be used as home QTH antenna.
Sounds like fun.
I would carry it in the trunk of the car and whenever I have time to operate from the car it would be my antenna od choice.
Interesting promotion.
I’d be interesting in using the BuddiStick at spring & summer outdoor hamfests, so that I could work a little DX (now that the bands are coming back) while sitting at my table. I’d also be interested in using it in future Pa. QSO Party contests, when I travel to other counties as a portable or rover.
I’d love to use this kit for backpacking operations.
I live in an antenna restricted community. So, I need a stealthy, easy to put up/take down antenna. Due to the economy, I can not currently afford a commercial Buddistick. So, I’m currently using a homebrewed (cammo taped, PVC, speaker wire) Buddistick with limited success. I would thrilled to have the commercial version. It much better built and more portable than what I have now. 73, W7CCZ
Just read the website, what a wonderful product!
I would love to have this for ecomm and camping????
Please pick me.
Very interesting!
I need it!:-)
73!
Great learning tool for antennas and it works great.
The buddy stick would put me one step closer in having an HF system I can make portable for emergency situations and club events
Great Idea! I’d love to have one!
Neat product! It would come in handy as I may be living in a antenna restricted area in the naer future
Would love to have this for travels in our motorhome!!
This would be perfect to take along on a mountain bike trip! Hope I win it.
I would use the Buddistick with my FT-817ND for expiremental purposes.
Great giveaway – have heard nothing but good things about the buddistick (and buddipole) hope I win!
IN ACTION AT RED ROOF N. DAYTON, OH. IN PARKING LOT.
WHOLE EVENING OF FUN. lIKE TO TRY IT ON HILLS AROUND
HOME ON LOW BANDS. FIELD DAY & SPECIAL EVENTS.
Looks like fun to me.
This looks like an awesome product. I have been wanting to build an HF kit that could be taking with me while in the RV or camping and such. Also the E-COMM capabilities of this antenna look endless. Even if I am not lucky enough to win this contest I will be looking to make a purchase.
good luck to all
I would use it for my ft-817.
Thx!
73
Recently got back into ham radio and unfortunately now I’m disabled. It would be nice to win the Buddistick and work some DX on the shorelines around the coast of Florida.
Thanks for the contest and a very useful website/Blog.
73 De K4YD, Central Florida
Be a nuce antenna for emergency use in Mexico where we live part of the year.73
I have seen the buddistick in action, many times. My younger brother has one and he loves it. He and I go to the Big HamFest at Dayton each year and this is the antenna we take with us. It is the ultimate portable antenna for working HF anywhere you might go. We have set it up on site in the middle of the “flea market” and even on the balcony of the motels we stay at. I recently puchased an RV and would love to have one to use during our camping trips. Easy setup, fast tuning and in no time at all, you are on the air. Ya gotta’ love it.
After years of big antennas and lots of power, I’m discovering how much fun it is to operate portable – either QRP or 100 watts. A Buddistick is a fine companion – either for the backyard or a cottage in Ireland. It’s effective yet it is amazingly compact when packed away. I also like the craftmanship of the construction.
How would I use a buddistick? All the time. I live in a very small cabin that doesn’t have space around it. I already have a buddipole that I love, but even it doesn’t fit well in the space I have (it’s a really small lot). Also being in town, lots of noise. So most weekends are spent roving around parts of Northern Michigan finding places to setup my portable rig. It would get lots of use.
So sign me up for this contest.
Thanks and 73
K8RUS
I would use the Buddistick as part of my EMCOMM Go Kit. Thanks.
Hey, I want in on the contest too! Looks like a wonderful system for field day or a public service event.
this buddistick looks like a winner. i want it!!
Wow… It looks like a great package to have and I would love to have one.!It would probably be a great field day antenna..!!
Bob
KA8SAF
My husband may be going to work several hours from home , and this would allow him a portable setup to be able to talk to his elderly father who is also a ham , on a regular basis.
I think this would be just right for my KX-1.
Woo, sign me up! I have a homemade Buddipole, so it’d be nice to try the more ‘professional’ version.
G’day from VK,
The Buddistick would be great for helping us to keep safe in the remote and isolated Outback of Australia, HF is often the ONLY way to be in contact out there, and being able to quickly use the Buddistick would be wonderful. My wife and I are retired, and spend up to six months on the road with 4WD and caravan – a great life! Adding amateur radio to this and operating portable is an absolute bonus. Thanks for the contest, and 73 from Australia. Ian
I like hikking and mountaineering and I’d like to have the Buddistick, it’s the perfect companion of mi IC-703 in the backpack!
73 from Spain,
Javi.
I would use the reliable Buddistick to introduce others to amateur radio, and to keep my skills sharp for portable operation. It would also be fun to use!
– Paul, WB0BBC
South Florida, USA
It would be great for camping.
i would use the Buddistick on my patio since I cannot install an antenna at my residence. I plan on also taking it with me to the Amazon Jungle which i go to every October to set up with my QRP/CW rig & see if I can communicate with my wife at home in Southern California.
73,
Sidney KJ6KFQ
This would be great for camping and hilltopping. I would probably also use it to demonstrate ham radio to friends.
I would use it to expand my Buddipole, some of the pieces would work very nice for some experiments I want to do and can’t with the standard BP parts.
I would use the Buddistick with my FT-897 for portable use in the many parks and trails near my QTH.
I’d use it to go portable with my new (to me) ICOM 706! I need a portable antenna to use for field day and weekend trips!
73….
I like the buddipole system, winning a buddistick would be a nice system for a elecraft kx-1 that im saving $ for, Count me in! Thank you.
I would use it to day pack with my FT-817……
I would use it in combination with my Scooter as a Mobile/Portable,unit to do QRP CW use,also in conjunction with FT-817 as mobile/portable qrp hf.
I would use the Buddistick while camping.
Used to have a Buddipole and would love to get back into the “Buddi” fraternity. It would be a huge help for my emcomm work.
Wow! I have a Vertex VX-1210 backpack rig that’s never been used in the field! This would be the PERFECT antenna to get out to our local parks and put them on the air ! Heard great things about the BuddiStick, but never used one. Seems like the quick, portable answer to a “park-ham” dreams!
Cheers…Bob KK8ZZ
This would make a great package for emergency communications
I am just starting out trying to set up for HF, and a radio shack, so anything helps.
I’d get back on the air on HF after 18 years quiet! 🙂
My mistake; I thought it was daily entries rather than once. 🙁 My apologies.
This would be great for Backpacking QRP rig
This is great for backpacking qrp
I would use the Buddistick with my IC 703 while tent camping and as a general purpose antenna for portable use on Field Day and other suitable events.
Backpack QRP
This promotion is a great idea. Hope you get a lot of responses.
need it for hiking, camping
What a great idea. Thanks for giving away such a neat prize. I would put it to good use.
I live in a controlled neighborhood so permanent external antennas are forbidden. Something like the Buddistick would be ideal for a quick setup and teardown when I wanted to operate.
Thank you for the opportunity to enter for such a great prize.
73s KF5CZO
Cheers, will check out the rest of your site 🙂
The Buddistick would be a great addition to my QRP station. I have a dipole at the preasent, and this would give me the chance to do some portable QSO.
I cant move anywhere near that fast, I figure on at least 5 minutes.
Been looking at these for a while, hopefully conditions will continue to improve!
Thankyou for the opportunity! I would utilize this antenna daily. Qrp would be the operation of use. I would use as portable station. This site is a resource full site good work! Regards
I’m a huge QRP fan and travel a lot for my job. Every hotel room would get an equal opportunity to try the buddistick. 🙂
If I won, or even if I didn’t, I’d check out the friendly Buddipole Group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Buddipole/ and download a copy of the helpful “Buddipole in the Field” by B. Scott Andersen (NE1RD) from http://www.buddipole.com/documentation.html
This would be a great addition to my RACES go kit. Keep up the great job with the forum.
Perfect for my party barge.
I own an Icom 703+ and currently use it with the Icom AH-703 antenna and in my truck. Yes, I run mobile QRP, Pedestrian Mobile QRP (HF PAck), and Portatble QRP. I would like to purchase a Buddipole when funds allow. I’ve been a member of the Buddipole group for several months and learning as much as I can about the Buddipole and Buddistick.
I will probably use the Buddistick portable in the park and for hiking up into the mountains around me as a portable system. In addition, I would like to use it sitting out on my patio on nice evenings and making some contacts. Field Day would be another application that it would see use along with part of a Go Kit for EmCom.
I guess I could sum it up by saying I would use it in most every application possible!
Thanks for the contest! I love to operate portable down by the beach, I live in Sunrise FL near the ocean.
Easy to carry to a mountain top
Now I ask you.., What could be better than buying one of Bud’s antennas??
To WIN one of his fine(famous!)antennas!!!
Seriously, great guy and great products.
This would be a neat prize to use during family camp outs. My oldest is studying to get his license, so hopefully in a few months there will be a third ham in the family!
I would use it for portable demonstrations of ham radio to perspective hams and Buddistick owners! 73′ Mike. N4PF
Just built Bud’s homebrew Buddipole and it works great!
Sign Me Up.. This would be a great addition to the go kit I am putting together.. thanks for the chance.
I would love this I would use it with my ft-817 portable
Thank you for entering me in the drawing
Hi, please sign me up and I can think of so many ways to use such a sweet set up. My first thought was how nice it would be in our ARES Emmcomm To-Go kits.
or when you may need a back-up antenna. The Buddistick is first system that comes to mind, it is small and easy to pick up, it covers the basic bands that you would need in case of an emergence. Now for the sweet part of life,it would be a snap to set up when camping or thous cross country trips in the RV. (oh, well, one can still dream)
73′ and keep on hamming
L P Owens, KA4SEE
Best portable system, bar none. Would increase the ease of using my compact HF rig for portable operations, especially with summer coming and the sunspot cycle peaking over the next couple of years. Thanks.
While I already use a Buddipole and love it, it would be great to have a Buddistick for the little portable operations I go on. These products are versatile and professionally made, and most of all they work!
The Buddipole would allow me to start operating from my apartment. I’ve been off the air since we moved in two years ago. There are no trees nearby and I have no way to permanently mount an antenna outside.
I got to talk to Bud at Pacificon a couple years ago and was really impressed both with the product and with the company.
This would be a great antenna to take on camping trips and road trips! I would love to have it!
What an exciting package, and we could sure use that here in the PHL for ARES work…
THIS WOULD BE A GREAT ANTENNA TO USE NEAR THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
This would be a great addition to the Club. Many members could benefit from the use of a BuddiStick!
I would use the buddy pole when I am away from home on 4×4 trips and other ham weekends
This will be of great use for all hams who find difficulty in installing a permanent antenna, especially for those who live in tall buildings. So we can use it as mobile station companion
Rookie (less than a year since my first card) and really driving head-first into emcomm. Would use for that and a chance to get out in the woods a bit more. 😀
Great website and contest! 73’s.
I would use it portable with my IC-703
Thanks
73’s
John
as an avid camper this will work great with my portable station.
Great deal.
Your Buddistick looks like the answer for RV camp sites.won’t be real noticeable at the RV campsites. Very Cool…
Thanks for the opportunity to win this great prize!
Put me in coach!
Thanks for the opportunity. Winning this will help me get back on the air, as portable is all I can do at this time.
KB8ASC Please enter me in the drawing. Antenna will be added to my QRP setup.
Thanks
Thank you for the opportunity to own and use a Buddistick. Portable operation is always lots of fun and the Buddistick would provide a way to set up and quickly get on the air.
73,
Ray,
Pick me please! 73 de K3LU
Great idea. Count me in!
Great offer… I’m in a condo with all the HOA / CCR restrictions that implies. There isn’t anything that I can permanently mount (believe me, I’ve tried!). So, the Buddistick™ Deluxe Package would allow me to operate HF while remaining in the shadows… and then disassemble and store the Buddistick™. The PERFECT solution 🙂
tnx es 73
Tom G, Sr.
Would love to use this camping
Looks like a good addition to my RV
I live in a antenna restricted area. I would use the BuddiStick as a base antenna and for net work.
Great contest really need a buddipole
TU tom
I have the FT-817 and the Buddistick will be a great addition for my portable operations!
I have a friend who has and uses a BuddiStick. He likes it, so I’d like to try one.
Thanks for the opportunity & 72/73
May be time to try some portable operation!
I would use this package along with my ICOM -706MKIIG and battery to demo HAM Radio just about anywhere. The problem has always been the Antenna that could quickly be set up.
Mark KC3JV
I have seen the antenna system and would really like to win one !!! I would be happy to provide glowing recommendations on how great it is. I’m happy to pay the postage.
Alan
This will be a great addition to the backpack radio gear. Thanks for the opportunity!
Hello! I like to operate portable, and the Buddistick would be very handy to use for IOTA & U.S. Islands portable operations especially since it will put out a low angle signal without the need for getting the antenna high up in the air. 73, Rob KD7H
Would make a nice addition to my QRP station.
Wonder what the odds are, is it like the lottery?
It looks like my Dad is going to have to take a job several hours from home and this would let him still be on the air during this time. Of course he will probably urge me to upgrade my license too.
This would be great for a tabletop setup when we go camping. Thanks for the opportunity!
I would love to use the Buddistick with my KX1 or K2 for traveling and just getting out in the fresh air away from the city noise. Portable QRP is the way to go. I have the Buddipole Deluxe with added options for my home station in HOA restricted area so I know the product. It works great.
I was thinking of buying one……winning it would be much better.
Great to suprise my husband (PD1ABY) for use on the camping year round.
We can both use it and will have more fun with our great hobby.
Thanks for this contest and let so many HAM people join.
73, 88.
Please sign me up.
I’m and hiker and a camper and have been looking for a new field ready antenna to work DX with
Thanks for the give away.
This would be a great little antenna to take to the park on Saturday morning to try and finish off that WAS award or maybe just sit and breathe the fresh air, drink a nice cup of your favorite brew, and have a relaxing rag-chew with a new friend or three…you may even try some DX.
I live on a small lot with no room for a large antenna. The Buddistick package would help me get on the air on the HF bands.
Logan
Great antenna!
I would like to use this to help improve communications in our county during search and rescue missions.
Great contest with a great prize!!
Perfect for an antenna restricted neighborhood.
Here’s a hope!
This would be great for camping trips.
I am a boater and camper and want to get into QRP portable work.
Emergency field ops, mostly.
I have been using a Flex 1500 at 5 watts for the past few months and would like to take it portable so I have been reading about this antenna for a while.
73
Oooh, I can’t wait to get a very portable antenna that I can take on my next backpacking trip!!
Mountan topping, E comm
Aw shucks, I am 69, and have not ever won anything, I don’t know why I am even entering this contest. I know I will not win. I live in an apt in Denver so cant put up antenna I also live on social security, so I can’t buy one. I need something lite, like the buddystick. I do have a Icom 703 that would be a great companion for the famous Buddystick. Thanks for chance.
DXing is something in my near future and I have a great tutor ready to get me going. The small package will make packing to some mountain tops that much easier. I haven’t yet made any connections on my own HF rig but have on a club rig at some competitions. 73
Great, It will fit (to carry) on my motorcycle for a little hilltopping and wandering out to remote locations . Thanks for the chance. N1HLG
Great New Site. Sure could use the new Buddistick. I love going portable in the summer….
Sign me up for the prize!
best qrp antenna
Love my PAC-12 kit-built which is similar to the Buddistick. But the Buddistick with quick tune coil and custom case is just ‘da bomb’.
I’m currently using a High Sierra screwdriver and a tripod for my portable ops. I’t heavy combersome and needs a battery and a contriller to operate. It sure would be nice to have a Buddy Pole with its light weight, ease of setup and frequency coverage to replace the screwdriver antenna. Ralph
Interesting. I am always interested in limited space, and portable antennas. Thanks.
What a great idea ! We travel frequently during the summer in our motorhome. When we are camping people are always stopping by to say hello, it would be fun to have a station set up and be able to show people how fun ham radio can be and maybe get some new people interested in our hobby.
What a fabulous prize. I would use it to provide safety as a Medical Reserve Corps volunteer and practice my radio readiiness skills. I love my new hobby. This very functional antenna would be a dream come true. I just passed my exam and am still looking for a job in this very bad economy. I would use it to do as much good as I can.
This would be great. I’ve recently moved to the NWT and would be out with this package as much as I could – snow or sun.
Excellent prize. Bud and Chris make great products. Also very good site, I visit often.
I am a police officer with the Anchorage Police Dept. Currently, I am organizing our officers in the department who are hams. We have about 30. We will be working on preparedness for emergency services in the event of a natural disaster up here. This Buddistick package would be a great addition to our department’s amateur radio equipment.
Awesome! This would be great in the Grab ‘n’ Go kit!
A nice package for portable use.Thanks for the chance of winning it!
I WOULD USE IT IN MY STATION AS A SECOND ANTENNA
I just moved to Arkansas & would love to try portable operations with this antenna & my IC-718. Lots of state parks here to enjoy.
We were talking at the radio club meeting about doing more demos of Amateur Radio to the general public.. What a perfect antenna to compliment my TS-50 for such a thing. Greetings from Detroit, James W8WW
That should be a nice antenna to have, small and very portable.
73,
Boudewijn (Bob) VE3TOK
What a cool product and fantastic idea!
I wonder how this compare to my Screwdriver Antenna?
A win would certainly save me the effort of trying to build one…
Looks good. Hope to win.
Great antenna!
this antenna would be great for traveling and camping
Living in a condo as I do severely limits antenna options. A portable, quick to set-up antenna would sure help my participation in the hobby.
Hello
I love QRP portable SOTA and WFF ..i* m retired pay..and buddistick is wonderful for me…and my FT-817ND.. GOD BLESS !
This could be quite handy.
Would really love to win this antenna. Take care.
73
KJ4ZAL
Jay R. Maxwell
I would love one of these for portable operation!
HELLO this would be great for me to have for portable set, i do not own one, i would love to go away for a weekend radio trip.
1) I love to go camping!
2) I love ham radio!
3) A Buddipole would let me combine 1 & 2!
I have not tried the antenna, but have seem it in use. I would use the antenna when I am out Geocaching so I could work stations
I will take it out on the Sunshine Skyway Pier and get lots of DX…
Nice package, great give away.
If I was to win with my 0.1% chance of a successful draw, I would use the Vertical along with another one to create a phased array for providing gain and a null pattern.
73’s
A perfect match for my IC-703Plus while camping in the back-country making contacts under the midnight sun! Priceless!
I have seen Bill – W7ZT – demonstrate and make fantastic contacts. What a great quality product.
Lots of fun using this camping.
Thanks,
Ray
Looks like aham.s buddy for the short time getaway. hope I can get one soon jim
I would probably use it in the field for Drills and Emergency events where I couldnt use my antenna on my Truck
Joe
Great product! Sign me up.
Love to have one 73 Harry
I live in a NYC apartment. I currently have a 20m folded dipole thrown out the window. I’d love to have a buddiepole to use! I am sure it would be more effective. I have a FD-870 and a K3.
73,
Jon
w1jp
Count me in
I’ll use it when working mobile with my FT817 and NUE-PSK.
73
I would like to use the antenna during my portable activities
The site looks great so far! Keep up the good work, and I’d love to win the Buddistick to use for my time spent vacationing in the low country where I have that nice big saltwater “ground” to help me out! Thanks
I’ll use it for SOTA activations primarily, but also camping, holidays with light luggage requirements and of course on the village green too. Looks like a great piece of kit!
I have never tried operating from unique sites. this might give some spark to this part of the hobby.
I would use this for situations as follows:
field day set up
special events conducted by my club
and as an emergency gear addition
Thanks for the great blog
KC0YNU
I would use the antenna for backpacking tripsin the Adirondack Mountains. Thanks!
I’d like to win this for back country operations!
Great idea! This would be perfect for portable operations with my FT-817!
Thanks.
Sign me up
I’d use the Buddipole to transmit from my balcony.
W2DAB
I use mine for deck-portable operations, and I’ve even set it up as a 6m 3 element beam for hilltop operation during VHF contests.
73 de John, AA1I