No worries-it’ll make a nice winter project. Right now I’m taking full
advantage of sunshine before the rainy season starts.
Dan Presley 503-701-3871
danpresley@me. com
n7...@arrl.net
> On Sep 24, 2022, at 20:47, David Gilbert wrote:
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> I don't really have a good setup for making
I don't really have a good setup for making videos, but when I get the
chance I'll make one showing how I built it and how to set it up. Might
be a while, though.
73,
Dave AB7E
On 9/24/2022 7:29 PM, Dan Presley wrote:
Thanks Dave for the reply. That sounds like a great antenna and I’d
Thanks Dave for the reply. That sounds like a great antenna and I’d definitely
like to see a picture and maybe a bit more description if you’d care to. I
enjoy playing with portable antennas and might try to build something like that
over the winter. One that I put together last year was a two
Well, this works the best for me for portable.
From the ground up- a speaker stand, a 15' painter pole, a right angle pole
to antenna mount, a "gum drop" antenna mount, a ham stick and two 20m radials.
This works for 14MHz and up as the ham sticks are a good portion of a quarter
wave.
...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Michael
Marx
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2015 8:05 PM
To: aar...@gmail.com; elecraft@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] Portable antenna for KX3
I have a Transworld antenna. www.twantennas.com http://www.twantennas.com/
They are expensive. They work GREAT
I have a Transworld antenna. www.twantennas.com http://www.twantennas.com/
They are expensive. They work GREAT. It takes about 2 minutes to put one up
and 2 minutes to take it down. If you want a well built product that works
look no further. Again they ARE expensive. But so was your
Maybe it's just me, but the KX3 has a nice automatic tuner, and wire is
comparatively cheap and one can do an infinite number of different antennas.
I bought 250' of #26 stranded copper-over-steel antenna wire, and the
biggest problem I'm having is choosing among the possibilities.
Gotta agree with Frank on the AlexLoop... When it is adjusted and you stay put
on a frequency for a while. I disable the internal tuner when I use the loop.
I find that the tuner is useful with my other portable field antennas, the
SuperAntennas MP-1 and a random hank of wire. I find the MP-1
My personal preference is the Alex Loop.
I have tried wires, etc and from my deck on a lawn chair or on the 7th floor of
a condo in Indian Shores, Florida...… 59 on most contacts.
Best on 10 meters but works ok as well on 40.
Frank KG9H
On Mar 9, 2015, at 8:22 PM, Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT
Some experience here with the PAR EndFedZ EF-10/20/40 may be of interest to the
group. As you all may know it is a self-resonant half-wave QRP antenna -
25watts continuous - for 40, 20 and 10 meters. It requires no counterpoise
and has a sealed matching network at the feed point end. I'm using
Thanks to all who responded to my question about a portable antenna for
use with camping. I received to many responses to reply to each one
individually...but THANKS for a lot of great ideas. There are a couple
that I will be mulling over.
73 God Bless!
Ken/NO4D
What you describe is an effective, easily transported antenna.
You can't get much simpler than this.
de Joe, aa4nn
All in all, I still prefer the twinlead-center-fed 40m inverted vee, BL1
balun (4 to 1), and the Jackite 28' pole for portable operation.
72, John W2XS
Has anyone used the antenna advertised on the site below???
http://stores.ebay.com/The-Bell-Imel-Group-LLC
Would appreciate any reports on the performance of this antenna by Elecraft
K2, K1, KX1 ops using the internal tuner in these rigs.
73, Joe W2KJ
I used the no-counterpoise antenna with my KX1. It matched OK but I could
not get full power output with that antenna. The seller also had the same
experience with his KX1. His K1 did not seem to have that problem.
All in all, I still prefer the twinlead-center-fed 40m inverted vee, BL1
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