[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Vic;
Your advice of launching a long wire into tree punched my "lets do
something" button. I think I'll take my K2 out to the park next week and
try getting on the air with a tree vertical as you suggested. Twenty
meters should have some life in it and with this in mind, what form would
this simple antenna system take? I have a KAT100 which I could take along
to match it.
The KAT100 will match almost anything, but an odd number of
quarter-wavelengths will produce a reasonable impedance for a random
wire antenna with less likelihood of making the radio 'hot' for RF. Then
you should also attach a counterpoise to the ground terminal; this could
be 16 ft (5M) or so of wire thrown on the ground.
You might get better results with a dipole, but this is about the
simplest antenna there is and it will probably work better than small
loaded verticals, etc.
--
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco
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