On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:43:02 -0400, Rich Ardolino wrote: >A few years back I was active member in a local ham club which >held its meetings at the old MARS station at Fort Monmouth, NJ., >(K2USA) A couple of times we connected my K2 to the full size >rhombic. Even on 40m ssb we were getting 20-30 over 9 reports >from Europe with my power set at 10 watts....worked even better >on cw at 5 watts. The antenna makes a big difference.
The 17 dB gain of a rhombic is hard to beat. All the commercial HF point-to-point stations used them, as did a lot of government agencies for p-to-p circuits. Before the advent of satellite circuits, the TV station serving ElCentro, CA / Yuma, AZ picked up the CBS network feed from Channel 2 in Los Angeles with a huge 50 MHz rhombic. Not bad for 6-meter band antenna !! I think that a good rhombic hooked to a K2 would really throw an impressive signal! -- 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
