I have a similar sized lot and am located in a city. Antennas are everything on HF and the bigger the better.
I tried just about everything but eventually sprung for a rooftop tower and a SteppIr 3 element. Huge improvement. Much better than a dipole. I hear the hex beam antennas work pretty well, are less intrusive and don't require as much in the way of a tower or rotor. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Karl W Hubbard via Elecraft Sent: Monday, January 9, 2023 6:30 PM To: Dave New, N8SBE <[email protected]>; Elecraft Reflector <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft 80M SSB Net Report Hi gang. I tried making QSO last night but missed my last week’s savior relay on RI. I could hear Bill in NH and then later Steve in GA and finally Merv on Cape Cod , all 5/9s but unable to work the net with 100W on my KPA100 and KX3 portable with vertical low band coil Buddipole with SWR at 1.4 I’m 30 miles from the NE coast of NC so probably can hear FL as well. Ugh, this lack of a good antenna like a dipole is killing me. Not sure an EFHW or OCF will cut it either on TX. I wonder if I should just spring for a KPA1500, but I don’t think that is comparable with KX3. At cross purposes using a portable QRP rig with a blaster. I can put any hideous vertical in the parking lot, but 90 feet x 60 feet not big enough for wires. 73s Karl. AF5LQ Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, January 8, 2023, 10:23 PM, Dave New, N8SBE <[email protected]> wrote: 3784 kHz, 9PM ET Sunday (0200Z Monday). Thanks to the following check ins (w), and relays (r): Call State Radio/Amp Name 1 N8SBE MI K3s/KPA500 Dave (w),(op) 2 WB9JNZ IL FTDX101d Eric (w),(r) 3 K8NU OH FTDX101d Carl (w) 4 AE6JV NH K3/Xpert 1.3K Bill (w),(r) 5 WM6P GA K4D/KPA1500 Steve (w),(r) 6 W8LVN IL K3s Bill (w) 7 W4KBX FL IC7300/KPA500 Richard (w) 8 W2OE MA FTDX101mp/KPA1500 Merv (w) 9 W8RNG OH IC7300 Tim (w) 10 KE4WY KY K4D/KPA1500 Jim (w) 11 WW4JF TN K3s/KPA500 John (w) 12 K9ZTV MO FT897D Kent (w) 13 KE3KQ PA K4D Ben (w) An interesting conversation ensued surrounding the various RF front ends found in current modern radios, and the pros and cons of each. Homework will consist of reading up on this so we can all be better informed by next week... Hope to see you next week, and tell your friends! 73, -- Dave, N8SBE ______________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
