I don't do field day. I've been using monoband dipoles so far for portable operations due to cost and weight constraints. They work incredibly well, and I hope to go out with a high Q antenna for 30m and a long pole to try end fed vertical. (My long pole seems stuck in the post! Courier emailed.). That said, an antenna which really should be 30m only due to its resonant matching circuit can be operated on neighbouring bands using the KX3's tuner. I've had contacts over reasonable distance on 40m with it.
The multiband antennae seem attractive for things like SOTA and single station operation. At the moment I need to drop my antenna and change links around to change band. It doesn't take too long to be fair. I'll experiment with a multiband off centre fed antenna which, even if it ends up too heavy to carry up a mountain, could make a useful home station antenna. At the moment my portable setup is set up in the garden but I wonder how well the home made antenna will stand up to our increasingly winter weather. - Richard On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 at 00:57, Al Lorona <alor...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > Fair enough, but it kinda goes without saying that in a group FD with 1 > station per band they'll use resonant, single-band antennas. If this is our > best argument against the 'multiband dipole', then that antenna still holds > its own pretty well in a multitude of other situations. > > I have always found a deep resistance and opposition to this antenna. > Whether it's an unwillingness to use antenna tuners, which many hams have, > or an undue fear of noise, which some hams have, or a belief that open-wire > line is noisier/weirder/harder/impossible-to-go-through-walls, which many > hams believe, the visceral reaction against this antenna always amazes and > baffles me. > > Please forgive my belligerence... the Dodgers lost and I've been in a sour > mood all day. > > Al W6LX > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 richard.corfi...@gmail.com ______________________________________________________________ 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
