Or just buile a resonant antenna for 6M. I found some simple plans for building a nice and sturdy 2- element moxon that has been working just great form me on 6M. It does not have to be up very high and you can turn it with a simple lightweight TV rotor. No tuner needed with it 50.0-52.0 MHz.
------------------------- 73, Greg - AB7R Whidbey Island WA NA-065 On Mon Dec 8 4:10 , "Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy" sent: >Hank, > >My suggestion is use a classic link coupled balanced "antenna tuner". If you >cannot find one to buy the cost of building one for 6m at the 100w power >level should not be very high. The third edition of 'The Radio Amateur's VHF >Manual' (ARRL) contains a couple of examples for use at other power levels, >please let me know off-list if you would like to see these. > >An eighty metre dipole should work well on 6m in certain directions, after >all it is a centre fed 7 wavelength (approx) longwire at 6m. The horizontal >pattern should have 4 narrow major lobes, 10 narrow secondary lobes and deep >nulls off the ends. > >73, >Geoff >GM4ESD > > >W6SX Hank Garretson wrote on Monday, December 08, 2008 at 3:23 AM > >> Since it is part of the K3 package, I would like to try six meters. My >> one and only antenna is an eighty-meter dipole 46 feet above ground fed >> with poly ladder-line. I'm looking for suggestions for a 100-watt coupler >> that will tune a balanced-feedline antenna at 50 MHz. I do not have the >> K3 ATU and am looking for something considerably less expensive. >> >> All ideas are welcome, but please don't suggest some other antenna. My >> antenna is what it is. Because of town esthetics and very harsh winter >> weather I'm lucky to have the antenna at all. > >_______________________________________________ >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 _______________________________________________ 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
