I've been making do with a really lousy doublet made of 24g zip cord at my home QTH for the few months I've had my general. I've made some contacts, but not gotten very far - 3W to Seattle from Palo Alto isn't going to impress anyone on this list (though making any contacts at all puts me in an elite portion of humanity, I realize :-)
Leigh WA5ZNU convinced me to build a PAC-12 antenna early on, but I never had much luck with it. It doesn't work in my back yard at all... I brought it to our cabin a couple of times and couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. I could hear "OK", but no one could hear me. I spent some time with it and an analyzer and learned a big lesson: that center section with the feedpoint is not symmetrical. It matters a lot that you send the signal up into the whip, not down into the ground. Jeez. Last night I played with the Flying Piggies and my might KX1 sent its signal all the way to Oklahoma City. Got 339 ... more work is needed before I can contemplate WAS, but it's definitely encouraging! Oink oink :-) 73 de chris K6DBG _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
