[Elecraft] K1 Band Choices - Skipping 20 meters.

[Darwin, Keith]

-----Original Message-----
 Mike Morrow said:

... I guess the assumption is that no one would ever forgo 20m coverage.


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Yea, I hear you.  You'd think 20 meters is the band nobody would skip
but, I find I use other bands more.  20 Meters is where the big guns
seem to play.  Lots of KW signals making my 5-15 watts seem pretty weak.
Lots of big beams too.

And I can see skipping 20 from an antenna point of view.  30/40/80 work
great with a vertical.  It's easy for me to get a dipole 1/2 wave high
on 15/12/10.  17 & 20 (esp 20) are the in between bands where neither
the vertical nor the dipole are optimal at my QTH.

- Keith KD1E -
- K2 5411 -