Agree...I'm a big fan of EFHW. I have made comparisons between an HFHW with a short radial and 1/4 WL with a few radials and the EFHW beats the 1/4 WL 100% hands down. This is a great example of empirical results speaking louder than theoretical predictions.
73, Robert-KP4Y/W4 Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 14, 2017, at 1:19 PM, Gil G. via Elecraft <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> > wrote: > > > I will second Guy here. > The best antenna I have ever used is the vertical EFHW. I never used a > counterpoise wire, never felt that tingling in your fingers you might feel > with a random wire and a metal key. > I have used 100mW to 500mW regularly with end feds with great results, single > hop up to 1300 miles, 5K miles on 1W. > I say that having built all kinds of antennas and used them in all sorts of > configurations, random wires, with and without counterpoises, slopers, > inverted Vs, dipole, Windom, magnetic loops, quad, short whips, yagi, and > except for the beams nothing beats the EFHW! > A horizontal dipole might perform as well but they are rarely high enough to > perform as well, except of course for NVIS on the lower bands, and then, a > horizontal EFHW will work as well. > The only antenna that came close in performance was a large magnetic loop. > Whatever the theory says, I am talking about real in-the-field performance > where nothing comes close. > Gil > AK4YH & F4WBY > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
