[Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

[Mike Morrow]

Tom wrote:

>Since you are going to be a newly minted ham, I would not recommend
>a Buddipole right now. I would take the suggestion of the others and
>build a 44 or 66 foot doublet and feed it with twin lead or build a
>resonant dipole.  Any of these simple antennas will out perform a 
>Buddipole...

Excellent advice.  I would go so far as to state without fear of
informed contradiction that a dipole will grossly grossly outperform
any portable HF vertical, which almost never has an adequate grounding
system.  The difference on receive or transmit is more often than not
about five S-units, equivalent to 30 dB.  What this means is that a
one watt signal to a dipole would require 1000 watts (!!) to the
portable vertical to match.

Plus, you can build about 100 dipoles for the typical price of one
commercial portable HF vertical, and you need no grounding system.
If you want the plans for a simple 7-band portable dipole, drop me
a line.

Portable verticals...just say "No!"

Mike / KK5F