Re: [Elecraft] Ki and MP-1 antenna

2004-09-22 Thread Mike Morrow
Yves wrote: What do you use as a portable antenna with the K1? I *always* use a simple, cheap, resonant, wire dipole. More than 30 years of playing with portable antennas, often in side by side comparisons with vertical antennas, has shown me that even high-dollar verticals without very good

RE: [Elecraft] Ki and MP-1 antenna

2004-09-22 Thread Treat Hull
Yves I completed my K-1 earlier this spring. If you're getting very little, I would be inclined to suspect the radio (or even the antenna plug) rather than the antenna. I can put 15 feet of hookup wire up a tree in Toronto and get acceptable reception ;-}. If you can't pick up signals with a

Re: [Elecraft] Ki and MP-1 antenna

2004-09-21 Thread Larry Makoski W2LJ
Yves Dussault wrote: Hi friends! What do you use as a portable antenna with the K1? Yves, I use either a homebrewed Buddipole: http://www.qsl.net/w3ff or a homebrews PAC-12 http://www.njqrp.org/pac-12/index.html I like both. 73 de Larry W2LJ

Re: [Elecraft] Ki and MP-1 antenna

2004-09-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 04:05:27PM -0400, Yves Dussault wrote: Hi friends! Any of you using the K1 with an MP-1 antenna? I do not hear much with this antenna! Sometimes just nothing What do you use as a portable antenna with the K1? I used an MP-1 with my K2 in the WPX contest from a