So far, I've found nothing that comes close, and there's nothing more frustrating than getting to the top and then finding the antenna you have is doing a poor job. I now regard anything which relies on loading coils with deep suspicion. That coil's usually doing a fine job of converting RF to heat. One such antenna I tested against an inverted-V dipole turned out to be over 20dB down on the dipole for 40 metres.
On Sun 19 Jul Wayne Burdick wrote: > But the search for the ideal miniature HF antenna continues: something > both very compact *and* highly efficient. Ideally it would break down > to a length of 8" or less, do an excellent job on 20 meters and up, > and earn a passing grade on 30 and/or 40 meters. -- 73, Rick, M0LEP (KX3 #3281) ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
