[Elecraft] K2 and wire antenna

Jim's mail jamesgood at dfwonline.net
Sun Jan 6 16:27:04 EST 2008


This is a test message and a question.  If the message gets through, that 
part works fine.  Now for the question:  My current QTH is a city lot that 
has several large oak trees in the back yard.  The trees have been there 
over 30 or 40 years and I will not be able to do much more than trim a very 
few limbs that get too close to other structures.  My HF antenna at present 
is an inverted V configuration hung from one of the trees at about 40 feet 
off the ground (also the yard is not level, there are several slopes) and 
the end points tied to another tree on one side of the yard and a fence on 
the other side.  The antenna was cut for 40 meters.  The feed line is an 
unknown length of 300 ohm television twin lead coming into the attic then 
through a closet to the radio.  My current radio (not an Elecraft) has an 
MFJ-941B tuner between the antenna connection and the actual feed line.

Would the K2 with an internal ATU be able to work with this antenna/feed 
line combination?

Thank you,
Jim  KD5VXH 



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