Re: [Elecraft] Portable antennae for the KX3

[Howard Hoyt via Elecraft]

Hi all,

For those of you using the Elecraft AX1 or AX2, Pro Audio Engineering 
now offers a mounting solution: theAM1 
. A lightweight 
mount option for your portable setups.  We have been discussing it over 
at the elecraft...@groups.io , but I 
know there are Elecraft KX owners here who are not currently in that group.


Cheers & 73,
Howie / WA4PSC
Pro Audio Engineering
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Re: [Elecraft] Portable antennae for the KX3

[Eric Fitzgerald]

Bill,

For my SOTA activations I carry this little gem:

https://www.packtenna.com/store/p1/PackTenna_Mini_Random_Wire_Antenna_%289%3A1_UNUN%29.html#/

It fits easily in my "Shack in a Bag."  I use a short length of coax 
with it.


I also, as Walter suggested, always carry *two* BNC binding posts (then 
tend to get misplaced) and a home-made doublet tuned to 40m made from RC 
power cord.  This seems to get out a bit better than the Packtenna but 
takes a little longer to deploy.


Another country hear from. HTH

73 Eric KG6MZS


On 9/1/23 12:46 PM, Bill Priakos via Elecraft wrote:

I am new to the site – I hear some antenna designs for portable operation with 
the KX3 posted here!  I am leaving for Europe, soon and want to take my little 
Elecraft with me with some appropriate antennae!

TKS for any help.

Bill, W5SJ

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Re: [Elecraft] Portable antennae for the KX3

[Jim Brown]

On 9/1/2023 1:36 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:

Regardless of what else you carry, I recommend taking a BNC to double binding 
post adaptor and two wires, 25 feet each.


Excellent advice.

73, Jim K9YC
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Re: [Elecraft] Portable antennae for the KX3

[Jim Brown]

On 9/1/2023 12:46 PM, Bill Priakos via Elecraft wrote:

I am new to the site – I hear some antenna designs for portable operation with 
the KX3 posted here!


There's nothing special about antennas for Elecraft radios. The ARRL 
Handbook and Antenna Book are our friends, and ought to be on every 
ham's bookshelf! We've been using the same antennas for almost a century!


73, Jim K9YC
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Re: [Elecraft] Portable antennae for the KX3

[Walter Underwood]

Regardless of what else you carry, I recommend taking a BNC to double binding 
post adaptor and two wires, 25 feet each. Connect one wire to the red post and 
toss it into a tree or over a bush, connect the other wire to the black post 
and lay it on the ground. Press ATU TUNE and you’ll be good on 40 m through 10 
m. This is described in the KX2 manual and versions of it go back to the KX1 
ATU manual about 20 years ago. 

I wind up my wire figure-8 style on “midi winders” from SOTAbeams. They are 
similar in length to the KX3, so pack nicely.

https://www.sotabeams.co.uk/midi-winders/

I use 26 AWG stranded insulated “toughcoat silky” wire from The Wireman.

https://thewireman.com/product/antenna-wire-26-awg-copper-clad-steel-stranded-jacketed/

wunder
K6WRU
Walter Underwood
CM87wj
http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)

> On Sep 1, 2023, at 12:46 PM, Bill Priakos via Elecraft 
>  wrote:
> 
> I am new to the site – I hear some antenna designs for portable operation 
> with the KX3 posted here!  I am leaving for Europe, soon and want to take my 
> little Elecraft with me with some appropriate antennae!
> 
> TKS for any help.
> 
> Bill, W5SJ
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Re: [Elecraft] Portable antennae for the KX3

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[Elecraft] Portable antennae for the KX3

[Bill Priakos via Elecraft]

I am new to the site – I hear some antenna designs for portable operation with 
the KX3 posted here!  I am leaving for Europe, soon and want to take my little 
Elecraft with me with some appropriate antennae!

TKS for any help.

Bill, W5SJ
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