A good book to read because of the lack of contacts possible for common
G-stations who are never DX to anyone? Not an issue for TF3KX.
Seriously, a wire dipole antenna and some means of attaching it to supports.
Open wire and coax feeder. A balun (I have the auto ATU). DC lead and PSU.
Key,
A type of antenna that I keep packed for use at short notice is a halfwave
centre fed dipole for use as a vertical, where part of the coax feeder forms
the bottom half of the dipole. With this arrangement the coax feeder comes
away from the bottom of the antenna not from the centre, radials are
Summer means beach time here in the Carolinas. I take my K1, lightweight 20m
dipole (K1 ATU tunes to all 4 bands), Palm Mini-Paddle, 5.0ah gel cell,
earphones, bungee cords and a couple of telescoping lure retriver poles:
Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy wrote:
A type of antenna that I keep packed for use at short notice is a
halfwave centre fed dipole for use as a vertical, where part of the coax
feeder forms the bottom half of the dipole.
How do you terminate the radiating part of the coax? I've tried antennas
Hello Jon,
My apology for a slow response, waging war with the grass all day!
To terminate the radiating part of the coax I use a high impedance trap
whose inductance is a length of the incoming feeder wound as a solenoid,
with the turns spaced slightly. To determine the capacitance required
Summer is around the corner (finally here, up at the arctic circle). Those
of you organized enough to have the K2 ready to be taken on the road or on
the trail on a short notice, what do you have in that travel kit, aside from
the K2 itself?
CW-key, mike, headphones, log book, pre-cut antenna
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