A resonant vertical is a good portable antenna if you have a decent ground system. It is certainly much better than the popular 43 foot vertical. However it will not typically perform the way yours did on the beach where the pseudo-brewster angle radiation is filled out.
John KK9A From: VE3BWP Tue Apr 4 10:58:40 EDT 201 Its not the lightest or easiest to deploy but it could very well be the best performing portable self supporting antenna out there. Once set up its fully resonant on your band of choice and easy to change bands. I stripped mine down for 40-6m at 10lbs and fit in a charter sized suite case on a recent trip to HI9 land. With the kx3 running 10w I rarely had to call CQ more then 3 times and was creating pileups. Its large footprint does attract a bit of attention on the beach and most folks thought I was setting up a deep sea fishing rod (its a real chick magnet lol). Theres definitely no performance compromise with this portable antenna if you can tolerate the extra weight and setup time. I also tried the random wire in a tree one afternoon there which worked surprisingly well too but had to work a lot harder for contacts. This was all SSB. Brian ve3bwp ______________________________________________________________ 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]
