There are no advantages in using commercial antennas out portable. A fishing pole for support and a lightweight dipole, doublet, end fed wire or ground plane will work better than most other simple antennas and the cost is minimal. The K1 built-in ATU has a fairly limited tuning range and will only tune some doublets and end fed wires... especially on 80m/40m. I've had success across 40/30/20/15 metres with a 51 foot doublet and 32 foot of lightweight 300 Ohm ribbon fed via a balun on a couple of feet of coax. On 80/40 metres with a longer doublet, it can prove troublesome to tune with the standard ATU, however by adding a couple of capacitors the tuning range on the lower bands can be extended, see: http://www.astromag.co.uk/pdfs/g4aon_kat1_mods.pdf
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