I was out of town on a business trip this week, which gave me a good
opportunity to try the antenna suggested by Bruce. I used his 68'
with the 33' counterpoise. The kx1 obtained a flat match on 20, 30
and 80, but 40 was 1.9.
I then tried Ron's suggestion. I had a 13' piece of wire so I wrapped
it around my glasses case, which was approx 1.5" x 2.5", and this gave
me a flat match on 40, but drove the swr up on the other 3 bands.
It's not much trouble to clip/unclip the glassed case coil, so I was
quite pleased. I will now make a small coil and keep it with the
antenna.
This set up worked very well for me. Thanks Bruce and Ron.
Paul
On 6/29/06, J. Coote <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've been following the 4-band antennas for KX-1 thread. Interesting and a
real challenge for field operations. K2HYD's idea of a 51 foot antenna and
counterpoise was helpful.
Some additional thoughts- the ATU in the KX-1 is a little limited, as
compared to other larger ATUs with more combinations, so we need antenna
lengths which are relatively close to 50 ohms and nonreactive.
The G5RV has already been done, but I am thinking of getting out my MFJ
bridge thingie and trying flattop/feeder, or antenna/counterpoise length
combinations (other than the G5RV) that will work well, and repeatably with
the KX-1 internal ATU.
Seems to me there have to be many flattop/feeder or antenna/counterpoise
length combinations.
73
Jay
W6CJ
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