[Elecraft] antenna suggestions? (was Re: kpa800 question)

Brian Mury ve7ngr at rac.ca
Wed May 25 21:52:57 EDT 2005


On Wed, 2005-25-05 at 17:04 -0700, David Toepfer wrote:
> I agree, but, some of us have no room/permission for an antenna that is worth
> anything, and have to make up for it somehow.

You've got it good! Right now I've got no antenna at all.

I'm away from home for about 15 months, living in an 11x15 foot room.
It's basically the equivalent of a small hotel room. It's on the 3rd
floor and has a window, but no balcony. It's probably not a great idea
to string wire out the window (it's military barracks). I should be able
to get away with attaching stuff to the walls.

So - any antenna suggestions? Preferably something inexpensive and easy
to build as I have almost no tools here. Some ideas I've been thinking
about are a random wire (using the tuner), a homebrew buddipole, perhaps
a magnetic loop to stick by the window, or a shortened vertical.

The rig is a K2/100, and I do have a MFJ tuner if I need it. 

All suggestions gratefully accepted!

-- 
73, Brian
VE7NGR


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