Ed, A 32' wire with a 16' counterpoise is not a resonant antenna on 40 meters. It will not load well unless you have an antenna tuner to turn it into 50 ohms. I have a KAT2 in my K2 #1239 to allow me to use "miscellaneous" antennas. I am assuming that by your calling it a "counterpoise" it is not laying on the ground. A counterpoise laying on the ground is a special case that has all kinds of loss issues to work around to prevent overwhelmingly bad results.
See what happens when you lengthen the counterpoise to 32 feet. It does not have to be in a straight line and can be bent to get the length. 73, Guy. On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:11 PM, EMD <[email protected]> wrote: > Don, > > I do have the Elecraft dummy load so I will look into that. I will also try > going to 10 watts and work down. > > I don't have an antenna analyzer at this time, sounds like something else I > will need to pick up. > > I'm using a 32' wire with a 16' counterpose which is hanging out an upstairs > window horizontally. > > 73, > Ed KE7HGA > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/I-don-t-think-I-m-getting-out-tp6678845p6678986.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
