I enjoyed your video very much Stan. Thanks for posting it. It's great to see the little K1 in action and working DX with 5W. I use a Buddistick antenna with quite some success. Like you, I prefer the simplicity of a simple wire over a tree for portable work, but I enjoy working from desert country, where there aren't many trees, so for little expeditions into nowhere, these verticals have an especially useful position in my antenna wardrobe. I hadn't heard of the HFp, but I'll give it a look now.
Incidentally, although these short verticals with a couple of radials model as being quite inefficient, I've found they do work well in practice. From VK7, I've worked a station in the UK on SSB phone - I was running only 5W into my Buddistick we had a chat for over 30 minutes on 20m. I've also worked a paedestrian mobile station in the UK - I was running 40W into the Buddistick with a single radial. The amazing thing was that the paedestrian mobile station was running 500mW, all on SSB phone! That taught me to treat gloomy predications about "compromised" or "inefficient" antennas with a grain of salt. It all depends on propagation. Great video. Thanks Stan, 73, John VK7JB -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/HFp-portable-vertical-antenna-tp6556376p6556579.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
