Don, that's my antenna and I shot that video with Tony W1ZMB. All we wanted to do was publicize a rather inexpensive and workable alternative to those heavily marketed and very expensive shortened antennas that promise the world at your doorstep and often fall short.
I used that antenna to earn my QRP WAC Award. My club borrowed it for a recent Special Event conducted from the front porch of Samuel F.B. Morse's Poughkeepsie estate. They didn't want us to put big antennae all over the place. For that event we poured 100 watts into it. Seemed to work quite well. We used an ICOM 746PRO which is known to have a rather narrow internal tuner -- I've been told 3:1. In any case, Don (et al), a half wave end fed antenna is basically a pretty good deal and it works darn well *above* half wave also. Putting it on a pushup pole, using a transformer to bring the impedance down to where *most* tuners can find a match, having a small footprint, and eliminating radials at the halfwave frequency and above (i.e., 20 through 6 meters inclusive) isn't a bad deal, in my opinion, for the ham who may be operating under certain constraints and wants something better than a 10% efficient Hamstick. I apologize if the technical content of our video was either lacking or misleading to anyone. We just know the darn thing works from actual experience. 73, Stan WB2LQF On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote: > Yes, that video is woefully uninformative, all that was accomplished > was to demonstrate that the K2 tuner could tune it - note that the K2 > tuner has a very wide range. ______________________________________________________________ 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
