ive never used a buddipole but i have used ground monted virticals
ex army tank whips 9ft,16ft and 33ft dk9sq f/glass mast portable
qrp on ssb and ive worked the world a bit of wire hung in a tree
will work well cheep and easy to do part of the fun is makeing
your antennas verticals get my vote ( best on 40/80/160m any day)
chris g0wfh
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From: "Mike Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1
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
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