Absolutely 'yes'. In my experience it makes a heck of a difference! I have had consistently good experiences with a 28' radiator made out of 24 gauge Teflon-coated stranded wire and a 33' counterpoise just stretched out on the ground. I bought one of those double BNC connectors and it works great. I use this antenna all the time with both my KX1 and my K2. I use it on 40 and 20 and cannot comment on how it would work on other bands. Just never tried it. Maybe I will try it today.
At last week's ham club meeting I brought my K1 and this antenna and invited folks to try their hand at CW QRP. There are always those skeptics. We opened the window and I threw the 28' wire into a nearby Blue Pine and stretched the 33' counterpoise along the ground. Guys worked Puerto Rico and the Balearic Islands. Probably gained at least a couple converts to QRP with simple wire antennas and hopefully a few more open minds. I also have a vertical Ventenna HFp. It's quite an effective antenna and is packaged nicely into a very small carrying bag. It's also tunable to all bands. However, in a "practical shootout" the darn little 28'/33' package of wire in the sandwich baggie always wins out for ease of setup and overall effective results. Stan WB2LQF On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Phil Hystad wrote: > Also, a slightly different question -- does anyone use a counterpoise > of any sort when using a single wire antenna? Have you thrown another > wire along the ground to create a kind of ground plane or does this > not make that much difference. > > 73, phil, K7PEH > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
