Reed, I see reference to Ground on page 6, but none on page 9 - is that a typo?
The problem is we here in the US have too many definitions for ground, the British use "Earthing" which helps a little. The references on page 6 are to "the other half of the antenna" which is taken care of when using a dipole, I believe those points were made in the manual to indicate that an antenna consisting only of a wire connected to the KX3 antenna jack center will not be very effective - there has to be something connected to the BNC shell too, and that is not necessarily mother earth ground. Note that the references are for portable or pedestrian mobile operation - an antenna at the home station should have a DC path on both conductors to mother earth ground to drain off static charge buildup. 73, Don W3FPR On 3/26/2012 1:19 PM, Reed Bumgarner wrote: > Page 9 of the manual seems to say that creating a ground for the KX3 is > necessary in all cases. Is this really true when you're using a Buddipole, > Yo-Yo dipole or any dipole fed with coax? > Thanks > Reed AA1RB > ______________________________________________________________ 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
