Re: [Elecraft] Antenna for KX-1

2010-06-19 Thread Albers
This antenna has worked great for me with the KX-1 autotuner on 80, 40, 30 and 20: I bought a 50 ft spool of speaker wire from Radio Shack and un-zipped it to make two 50 ft wires. I think it's 18 gauge, but I'm sure that's not critical. Mine actually measured 51 ft 8 inches long (and I'm sure

Re: [Elecraft] Antenna for KX-1

2010-06-19 Thread ussv dharma
USSV DHARMA  --- On Sat, 6/19/10, Albers alb...@embarqmail.com wrote: From: Albers alb...@embarqmail.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Antenna for KX-1 To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Date: Saturday, June 19, 2010, 10:50 AM This antenna has worked great for me with the KX-1 autotuner on 80, 40, 30

Re: [Elecraft] Antenna for KX-1

2010-06-19 Thread Albers
@mailman.qth.net; Albers alb...@embarqmail.com Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 5:13 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Antenna for KX-1 I used to think, :just put a wire in the ocean...and voila good ground. Not soneed area of contactbronze screen wire cage works great. Susan If you don't