Thank you, John. FYI both OM3DX and IZ4RTE had K3s and I was using my K1. Looks like Elecraft is "taking over the world" !!
I have a new philosophy -- " If you want a radio buy an Elecraft; if you want a key by a Begali - PERIOD - No further discussion" !!! Maybe I'll make myself up a T-Shirt that says that exact thing! Regarding "gloomy predictions" -- I spent most of my adult, working life in a field (IBM) where we lived strictly by the math. Now, retired, I am moving over to the "empiracal evidence" side of the equation. If it seems to work........by golly, maybe it does! 73, Stan WB2LQF KX1 #2411 K1#2994 K2# 6980 K3#5244 K9 #1 (Cocoa the Chihuahua) Everything is QRP, even the dog. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:20 PM, VK7JB wrote: > 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:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ 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
