Good Day Paul, My first rig was a KX1 and I ran an end-fed wire (34' as I recall) with three counterpoises. It worked on 20, 30, and 40 quite well. It wouldn't load on 80, but I made QSOs with it anyway. A year or so later I bought a KX3 and ran the same antenna with good results. Then about 6 months ago, I bought the EARCHI EFHW. I'm using the suggested setup--30' wire to the matchbox with 25' of coax.The KX3 loves it and it loads 6 though 80 FB--160 not so well. The only drawback is the counterpoise.
Just for grins I took out the trusty KX1 and tried it on the EARCHI, The AT didn't like it. SWL was 2.0 where with it was 1.0--1.3 consistently with the simple wire-counterpoise setup. So, maybe I need to lengthen the wire as another poster noted. Just FYI see http://www.sotabeams.co.uk/efhw/ for a discussion of EFHW. 72 John K4ARQ On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 5:59 AM, PGSchreier <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi gang, > > I would like to find a 40/30/20 meter end-fed dipole I can run with my KX1 > and its tuner. (I'm not crazy about linked dipoles for a number of reasons.) > > Are you familiar with any end-fed design that will handle all three bands > well? > > For instance, does anyone have any experience with the EndFed 40-6m > Antenna from W1SFR? > http://kx3helper.com/endfed-40-6m-antenna/ > > Thanks for any tips! > Paul AA1MI / HB9DST > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- John Flynn Tallahassee, Florida USA ______________________________________________________________ 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
