[Elecraft] Antenna considerations (what to do?)

[Dick Hissink]

Hello Elecraft community,
Well my K2 works flawlessly and it is time now to bother about the
antenna's before the frost gets into the ground.
I like to set up a vertical next to my G5RV antenna, and found very nice
verticals made by Titanex in Germay ( see their site www.titanex.de
<http://www.titanex.de/> ) The antenna I set my eye on is the 8030
vertical. And now, here comes the big question. Titanex advises to use a
tuningbox close to the antenna to make it operate at different bands.
This is a very expensive box, and made for more than 1KW of power..not
exactly QRP.  My question is, can I feed the 8030 directly with coax and
use the KAT2 to tune the antenna? If not, why not, and what options do I
have? I really want to put up a vertical to experiment with, burry
enough radials etc. Ok gentlemen antenna guru's who makes me
Happy and gives me an affordable solution to coupling my K2 to the 8030.
Thanks Dick PA3CW K2#3724
 
 


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