[Elecraft] Ki and MP-1 antenna

[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 ground planes (the usual case in temporary installations) provide
grossly poor performance in comparison to a $5 dipole, even when that dipole
is tuned for 40m and less than ten feet above ground.

I think that the reported success of short loading-coil vertical antennas
with jury-rigged ground systems simply shows that contacts can often be made
even with the worst of antenna designs.

73,
Mike / KK5F