I just ordered a number of options from SotaBeams in the UK to compliment my KX2.
http://www.sotabeams.co.uk/antennas-hf/ Small and sometimes conveniently packed options make taking the fully qrv ready rig to the Caribbean very easy. Even as a big gun contester I am having alot of fun with the little feature packed KX2 and its portable potential. they also sell a telescopic 30 ft fiberglass mast that breaks down to 26". amazing what you can fit in a backpack these days ;-). Chris N6WM ________________________________________ From: Elecraft [[email protected]] on behalf of K9MA [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2016 1:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Small QRP antenna I've had good luck with the end fed 40 M half wave, too. I use it with the KX1 to do CWT's on bicycle tours (in warmer weather). While the transformer and ATU apparently works, I wanted a really good match to maximize output power, so I built a small QRP tuner for it: http://sdellington.us/hr/EFHW_Tuner2.pdf Most of the parts come from the Pacific Antenna BLT+ kit, which they were willing to sell me without the case. 73, Scott K9MA On 12/28/2016 14:56, Fred Jensen wrote: > The Summits On The Air crowd, at least one of whom "runs" up > mountains, has had very good luck with end-fed half-waves. The > transformer weighs next to nothing, and the rest is just wire. > Requires no counterpoise, very ground insensitive since it's fed at a > voltage node. Also because of that, you need no coax, just an adapter > between rig and transformer. The higher you can get the middle > [current node] the better, but it will work very well with just about > any elevation on the far end. > > For 40, it's about 67 ft of wire, and is a full-wave on 20 and will > work well there. My KX1, when I still had it, had no problem finding > a match. My HOA-Stealth here at home is an 80-10 EFHW strung about 6 > ft high along the top of a wooden fence. Works surprisingly well. > > Fred K6DGW > Sparks NV DM09dn > Washoe County > > --Northern California Contest Club > --CU in the Cal QSO Party > --7-8 Oct 2017 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] -- Scott K9MA [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
