That will work OK for QRP battery portable, but it is floating your rig
chassis above RF ground. In the shack with a power supply, the power
supply and its ground will become part of your antenna and will radiate,
perhaps degrading performance.
To see the effect, test if you get different SWR (or RX sound) when
touching the rig vs. not touching it. A balun even at the base of the
rig, or on a short coax jumper, will eliminate these effects.
73,
Leigh/WA5ZNU
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 12:44 pm, Jim Miller wrote:
Just got in from the porch where the windowline is being fed directly
by the
K2 via a BNC-banana jack adapter.
Antenna tuned to less than 1.4:1 from 160 to 10 around the usual QRP CW
watering holes.
That is good enough for now until I can get the stuff together for
remoting
the T1.
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