[Elecraft] K1 on a sailboat

[Vic Rosenthal]

Hayden wrote:

> so is there any experience out on a handy antenna?  i do have the KAT1
> too, so hope that will help.  I've got a non insulated backstay, and of
> course can haul just about anything aloft with the halyards.
> 
> perhaps just a simple old justinverted v?

If you have access to a ground (I'm not a sailor so I don't know how the boat is 
constructed, whether it's likely to have a metal surface in contact with the 
sea), then it would be hard to beat a simple vertical wire.  Unlike the inverted 
V, it would provide very good low-angle radiation over the saltwater ground.

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73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco