I think you've hit the nail on the head: couple your K series to the internet using a decent outdoor aerial at home. Spend your money for effective communication and avoid all those nasty emc troubles in hotel rooms, unless you can poke a wire out of the window. BTW, you probably need permission from the hotel owner to do this.
Loops are good for receiving using an external amplifier if you need to. You can get very good nulling of nearby noise sources. You only need simple wire loops, no fancy hardware. David G3UNA On 11/05/2012 16:09, Mike WA8BXN wrote: > > I too would like to hear the answers to this question! But I have an added > question and thought. What are reasonable expectations to being able to work > much with an in the motel room antenna? I would expect a lot of noise, a lot > of shielding and need to use 40 or 80a meters at night which is rougher to > do with short antennas. My approach would be Internet access to a rig at > home. > > The thought is that one could test out indoor antennas in their own shack to > see how various things work. Second thought, particularly with respect to > small loops, I wonder if they would be useful to home use (primarily as a > receive antenna assuming the presence of better outside antennas for > transmitting) being easy to rotate by hand to try to null noise or QRM. > > 73 - Mike WA8BXN ______________________________________________________________ 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
