My experience in a hotel room is they do not work well at all. Seems like you are inside a cage with RFI emitters all around you. Even high up in the hotel. Have had better luck outside on the grass with a dipole or wire just hung up arm's length in the trees.
Get some wire outside and away from the building! or go outside. I have not had any luck getting hotel rooms with real balcony options. 73, tom n4zpt On 5/11/2012 12:09 PM, 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 > > -------Original Message------- > > From: va3...@gmail.com > Date: 5/11/2012 11:27:40 AM > To: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net; k6...@foothill.net > Cc: Elecraft list > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Portable Antennas (near end fed) > > I for one am in a quandary on what to get at Dayton > > A buddipole, Alex loop, or g4tph. Being a road warrior, need a good working > interior (most times hotel rooms are not accessible to the outside) portable > > > And a partridge in a pear tree as well :-) > Robert > > A 'kosher' ham > Sent from my BlackBerry device > > -----Original Message----- > From: Stephen Prior<eastbrantw...@gmail.com> > Sender: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net > Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 08:55:54 > To: k6...@foothill.net<k6...@foothill.net> > Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net<elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Portable Antennas (near end fed) > > Hi Fred > > I have been very tempted by the Alex-loop, but in the meantime have just > Bought one of G4TPH's loops which I shall put through its paces when the > Weather improves! I should imagine that the insensitivity to electric > Fields in the near field would be an advantage in electrically noisy > Environments. Even a campsite can be very noisy with the inverters from RVs > And the like spewing out rf everywhere. > > I'm spoilt for choice of antennas to play with once the KX3 arrives! > > 73 Stephen G4SJP > > On Wednesday, 9 May 2012, Fred Jensen wrote: > >> I haven't been following this thread closely but has anyone mentioned a >> small magnetic loop like the Alex-Loop? I've got a good SOTA friend who >> uses one and loves it. >> >> 73, >> >> Fred K6DGW >> - Northern California Contest Club >> - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 >> - www.cqp.org >> >> On 5/9/2012 2:47 AM, David Cutter wrote: >>> What I particularly like about the near end fed is that you are more in >>> control of the local stray capacitances and such like and you only need >>> one slender wire in the sky. I wrote a power point on the subject which >>> needs a bit of massage but I can send it to you for interest. >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net<javascript:;> >> >> 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
