Thanks Joe, I do have two of the ARRL Antenna Books but wasn't familiar the other references. I'll be sure to look them up.
I'm currently using a multiband dipole that has really impressed me given it's poor location and setup. It's obvious I need an "antenna tool kit". That would be very helpful for what I need. 73 Stan KG7FYI ~~~~ -.- --. --... ..-. -.-- .. ><((((ยบ> On 05/01/2017 05:54 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV-4 [via Elecraft] wrote: > On 5/1/2017 12:17 AM, Stanley Petrowski wrote: > > Thanks again Don. I'm working on that. I agree that this skill set is > > fast fading. One of the interesting aspects of the ham circles I am > > affiliated with is that we are all well over 65 and most beyond that. > > I have secured many hundreds of feet of good quality coax, spools of > > wire to build traps and more wire to use for building antennas. > > Building traps is probably a waste of time. As I learned from old > timers 40 years ago, your best emergency antennas will be: > > 1) 40 and 75 meter 1/4 wave sections of wire that can be clamped > under the bottom of the mast/whip on your mobile antenna and > pulled over nearby tree or up a flagpole when parked. > > 2) two or three parallel dipoles for 75 and 40 meters (or 80, 75 > and 40 meters if you have digital/CW nets) that can be hauled > up a flag pole, into a tree or up a 30 to 40 foot push up mast > (with the necessary base and temporary guying) for longer term > "portable" operations. > > With the advent of 60 meter allocations (particularly if the FCC > gets off its ass and implements the most recent WARC decisions) > you may want to consider adding 60 meters to your arsenal. > > It may be worthwhile having a pair of end-fed half wave (EFHW) > antennas in your tool kit - one for 80/40 and one for 60/30. Put > insulators in the middle and at 30 feed from the feed end so they > can be pulled up a flag pole, tree, or temporary mast as either > an inverted V or inverted L. With transceivers like the K3 that > have wide range tuners, the EFHW may be easier to store and deploy > than the parallel dipole/inverted V and will provide the same > NVIS performance as the traditional "maypole" installations. > > In any case, I recommend the ARRL Antenna Book, ARRL's book on > portable antennas, the ARRL series "ARRL's Wire Antenna Classics" > (particularly N0SS's article "An Easy-up and easy to store Field > Day Dipole"), and the ARRL series "ARRL Antenna Compendium" > (Volumes 1-8). If you *study* the Antenna Book, you will get a > good understanding of the theory wile the Antenna Wire Classics > and Antenna Compendium series will provide a wealth of practical > ideas. > > 73, > > ... Joe, W4TV > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=7630179&i=0> > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=7630179&i=1> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the > discussion below: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-P3-and-KAT500-tp7629969p7630179.html > > To unsubscribe from K3 P3 and KAT500, click here > <http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=7629969&code=c3RhbmxleUBzdXJjcC5vcmd8NzYyOTk2OXwxNzg3MzA0NjYz>. > NAML > <http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > > ----- Stan KG7FYI -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K3-P3-and-KAT500-tp7629969p7630186.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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]
