A good starting point is to make length of radiating wire and length of counterpoise odd multiples of a quarter wavelength at frequency of interest. This puts relatively low voltage at feed point with resulting relatively low impedance and easy matching.
73, Hank, W6SX On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 7:20 AM, John Shadle <[email protected]> wrote: I'm headed up to KL7-land next week and am going to take the K2 with > me. I was thinking about using the KAT2 to tune a wire attached to the > BL2 (at the 1:1 setting). > > Probably going to cut some teflon-coated wire this evening and pack it > away in the bag. > > I'm seeking input on the best lengths of wire to cut for the active > part of the antenna as well as the counterpoise. > > If you have any other comments on this setup, I'd love to hear them, > too. In the past, I've used the K2 attached to my homebrew vertical > (SGC SG-239 at the base of a elevated ground plane vertical), so this > is my first adventure with "random wire" antennas. > > Thanks! > -john W4PAH > ______________________________________________________________ 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
