Tom wrote: >Since you are going to be a newly minted ham, I would not recommend >a Buddipole right now. I would take the suggestion of the others and >build a 44 or 66 foot doublet and feed it with twin lead or build a >resonant dipole. Any of these simple antennas will out perform a >Buddipole...
Excellent advice. I would go so far as to state without fear of informed contradiction that a dipole will grossly grossly outperform any portable HF vertical, which almost never has an adequate grounding system. The difference on receive or transmit is more often than not about five S-units, equivalent to 30 dB. What this means is that a one watt signal to a dipole would require 1000 watts (!!) to the portable vertical to match. Plus, you can build about 100 dipoles for the typical price of one commercial portable HF vertical, and you need no grounding system. If you want the plans for a simple 7-band portable dipole, drop me a line. Portable verticals...just say "No!" Mike / KK5F _______________________________________________ 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
