Yves wrote: >What do you use as a portable antenna with the K1?
I *always* use a simple, cheap, resonant, wire dipole. More than 30 years of playing with portable antennas, often in side by side comparisons with vertical antennas, has shown me that even high-dollar verticals without very good ground planes (the usual case in temporary installations) provide grossly poor performance in comparison to a $5 dipole, even when that dipole is tuned for 40m and less than ten feet above ground. I think that the reported success of short loading-coil vertical antennas with jury-rigged ground systems simply shows that contacts can often be made even with the worst of antenna designs. 73, Mike / KK5F _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
