I use mine with a 2 x 88ft doublet fed straight in and it works on all bands.
David G3UNA ----- Original Message ----- From: "THOMAS BRERETON" <[email protected]> To: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 11:44 PM Subject: [Elecraft] The use of a doublet >I have long been an advocate of the center fed doublet. > I have put them up in numerous state and even in Germany. > Of course I have used different tuners. Folks here in this > write about of all kinds of external tuners. > > May I make a radical suggestion? Use the internal K3 > antenna tuner! Now I know that most transceivers have > internal tuners that will operate well only up to 3:1 swr. > The K3 tuner is rated much higher than that. Indeed, > I was very surprised how well it works here in my station > with my 135' foot dipole with 450 ohm ladder line and a > balun. > I highly recommend that one should consider the K3 tuner. > It's a winner. > > Tom Brereton, W0TOM > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
