Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 11 hours ago

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The JPC-12 center loaded vertical portable antenna has become a pretty popular option for field operations like POTA and SOTA and for good reason. It is reasonably priced and a solid performer. In this video, I go over the design, setup and tuning of this antenna and do a real world test of it using my KX2 QRP and my FT-891 at 50 watts. I even got a DX contact in Italy on QRP.

Here is a link to the antenna: amzn.to/4kDtOAe
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:04 JPC-12 Overview
2:07 Antenna Setup
5:18 Antenna Tuning
8:09 W6KSR
9:18 AK6IF
10:15 WB6DMX
11:24 KG6YJ
12:39 IK4IDF (DX Italy)
14:31 KN6QWP
15:40 VA3UZ
17:16 KB8PVQ
19:35 WA2PCN
20:35 W2BUG
21:53 WA2EDJ
23:05 W6KC
24:05 JPC Final Thoughts