Welcome to the PackTenna web site. 
PackTenna makes ultralight, portable HF amateur radio antenna systems and accessories.  PackTennas are light weight, compact, portable HF antenna systems ideal for operating on the trail, at the campsite, on Field Day, SOTA activation, air travel, or HOA restricted locations. 
PackTennas use full size wire antenna elements that can be configured in a variety of ways including verticals, dipoles, inverted vee’s and long wires delivering full size antenna performance.  The unique combination of backpacking quality hardware, a 10 meter (32’) tall mast that collapses to 26 inches and custom feed points and accessories make this the ideal portable HF antenna system.

YouTube Videos
Mike, K8MRD, did a great video showing the PackTenna End-Fed Half Wave antenna in action.  Mike is operating from the park with a Yaesu FT-891 running 90 watts into the antenna.
Check out his YouTube channel K8MRD Radio Stuff
In this video we describe the origin of the PackTenna antennas and how to use them.  This presentation was given at the QSO Today Virtual Ham Radio Expo in August 2020.   

Customer Feedback

I wanted to briefly share my incredible satisfaction and joy from completing my PackTenna Antenna Farm now that I have a EFRW (actually 2 of them), inline RF chokes, a EFHW , a linked dipole and 2 compact masts. My portable HF setup has both qrp (Elekraft KX2) and QRO (Yaesu FT 891 + MFJ 939Y automatic external tuner) with Bioenno LIFePO4 batteries to power each one in 2 Go Bags (backpacks).  I used George's instructions from his You Tube videos as well as the conversation of this group [groups.io]  (thanks everyone for sharing your thoughts and ideas!)  to get into modifying wire lengths using the banana plug and s clip components (I highly suggest purchasing these even if you are not yet into tinkering like I do - they are incredibly useful for repairs and string wires literally everywhere). I watched Mike K8MRD show the EFHW cut for 20M then added more wire using the banana plugs to make a resonant 40, 20, 15 and 10M EF antenna.   Wow! It actually works  without needing a tuner!  A high efficiency system that (if there are trees around) can be used as a sloper or with a mast as an inverted vee! The flexibility of these antennas is mind boggling to me and I am starting to experiment with various configurations.

This has been so fulfilling for me that I have (or am in the process) of selling all my other portable antenna supplies simply because I no longer have a use for them. The PackTenna "farm" fits into my two Go Bags for my radios along wit the masts with room to spare. George, thank you so much for your vision in designing and building these incredible resources for those of us hams who love to make contacts in portable settings that allow us to remain compact and discrete as we travel (plane or train or even our cars) to sites to set up quickly with a robust, high efficiency antenna system. What else could we ask for? [think of that as a challenge for new product development :-) ] 

73
Gailen N5GDM

Carlos, KD9OLN, sets up for operating while skydiving with his PackTenna EFHW antenna ! 
Wow !  That takes guts. 

Articles

Videos
Operating Summits on the Air / Parks on the Air with PackTenna Ham Radio Gear
By Johnny W5KV
Signal Search YouTube channel
Reviewing the PackTenna Mini 9:1 Random Wire Antenna
By Johnny W5KV
Signal Search YouTube channel
PackTenna Mini Antenna Review
By Stuart Thomas, KB1HQS
PackTenna Unboxing
By Julian OH8STN
​Survival Tech Nord
Portable Operations with the PackTenna Mini
​By John Jacobs, W7DBO
New PackTenna Linked Dipole and POTA
By K8MRD
PackTenna Debut and KX2
​By Fred, VE3FAL
PackTenna Mini End Fed Balun Up In Minutes - Review
​By John Leonardelli  VE3IPS
  PackTenna Line of Baluns Reviewed
By John Leonardelli  VE3IPS