On 6/28/05, Lee Buller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A longwire is a good antenna if there is a good counterpoise (ground or > radials or a large >body of salt water). I have played around with them > using a simple 365 pf BC cap and a >coil of wire and I can load one every > time. >
I'm staying at a house on the beach in Westbrook, CT for the week .. I got a 16.5 foot crappie pole from Cabela's, a surf rod holder from Benny's, tied an 87 foot piece of wire to the eyelet and at low tide set the pole in the rod holder into the sand. It's been there for 6 cycles of the tides now and it looks like it's holding steady :) The wire runs over a minimum of 20 feet of ocean, and maybe 55 feet at high tide. I have it connected to the red post on my ZM2, and a 17 foot counterpoise hangs out of the window and is sort of run along the side of the house (away from the water) attaches to the black post (link to ground). It tunes fine on 80/40/30/20 with the ATS .. with the KX1 I tune it by hand and then kick in the ATU so I don't have to manually retune on 30/40. Guess I really should go over to the radioshaft and see if they have a banana-to-bnc adapter to see how the KX1 handles it alone ... de John/W1RT _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
