[Elecraft] K1 End-Fed Wire Antenna Recommendations

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

There are several fancy adapters that you can buy, but my recommendation
is to get a BNC to SO-239 female adapter and a banana plug. Both are
available from Radio Shack. 

The adapter equips you to hook a "large" coaxial connector to your K1
any time you might need to do that. The banana plug fits snugly into the
center hole of a "large" coax connector (the type commonly used for
RG-8, etc.) to provide a secure and simple way to connect an end-fed
wire to it. The banana plug has the advantage that should someone every
trip, fall, grab or otherwise YANK on the antenna wire, the banana plug
will pull free of the connector without launching your K1 off into the
blue somewhere on the end of the flailing antenna wire.

Ron AC7AC
K2 # 1289

-----Original Message-----
Just finished #1265 and wanted some recommendations on the best way to
hook up an end-fed wire antenna directly to the BNC connector.  Any
suggestions?
Alan
KL1HC