Gary I am always portable and for a quick antenna when portable, if you have a vehicle mounted antenna with RG8/59 connected to it, just remove the antenna and attach a long wire and throw that up into the trees...the K3 ATU handles mine just fine..80-10M.
My 2 cents worth, keep the change mate! Gary - VK4FD On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Don Wilhelm <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary, > > For 80 thru 20 meter operation, I would advocate an 88 foot dipole. 44 > feet on each side and fed with either 300 or 450 ohm ladder line (use > 300 ohm for portable because it is lighter). > > A push-up pole will allow that antenna to be erected in minutes - The > feedline and center of the dipole are at the tip of the pole and the > ends are spread out in inverted Vee fashoin to whatever bushes, shrube, > or trees are available. > > A 44 foot dipole will work fine for 40 thru 10 meters. > > See the L B Cebik archives - My Favorite 5 Backyard Antennas for more > details. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > Gary Smith wrote: >> I have the internal tuner in my K3 and want to be able to put up a >> wire antenna that can be assembled in minutes for both FD and public >> event locations. I used to have a Mor-Gain antenna & while it wasn't >> a great performer, it would have been fine for this use. Danged if I >> can find it though, I must have lent it out & never got it back. >> >> I've thought to use my spud gun to send a random wire over a tree top >> & have a counterpoise wire on the ground, using the K3's ATU to match >> the wire to the band. The goal would be to cover 80-20 meters. Above >> 20 would be nice but there's not much activity there and I'd like to >> be able to demonstrate Ham Radio. >> >> Any suggestions on something else that is convenient and works well >> would be appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> >> Gary >> KA1J >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 > -- Gary VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile http://www.qsl.net/vk4fd/ K3 #679 For everything else there's Mastercard!!! ______________________________________________________________ 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
