Fwd: [Elecraft] Sea Kayak Antennas

Sun Mar 9 20:25:01 2003

In a message dated 3/9/2003 7:39:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> My XYL and I spend time in a tandem sea kayak, and wonder if anybody has had 
> 
> any experience with the Miracle Whip Antenna as described in a recent QST.  
> 
> Would be great to be able to operate from the Kayak and not have to go 
> ashore 
> and rig some sort of antenna...I get good reviews from the Miracle Antenna 
> Website...but that should be expected...what about anyone else?   Bob Wiest 
> 
> K1 1420  W1ZZL
> 

Save your money. You would be better off with a 50 ohms resistor.  Recently a 
friend and I compared the "Miracle Antenna" to a standard dipole.  On 20 
meters, a signal was S9 on the dipole, with the Miracle it was less than S1.  
It works a little better with a long counterpoise but this was noisy and then 
the counterpoise is really the antenna.   Sorry to be so blunt but its simply 
a complete piece of JUNK.
73, Jim WA2UMP K2:2679

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