[Elecraft] K2: What do you have in your portable/travel kit?

[Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy]

A type of antenna that I keep packed for use at short notice is a halfwave 
centre fed dipole for use as a vertical, where part of the coax feeder forms 
the bottom half of the dipole. With this arrangement the coax feeder comes 
away from the bottom of the antenna not from the centre, radials are not 
essential and matching is easy. The complete antenna and feeder could be 
made using a single length of coax. Although it is a single band antenna 
there might be a modification, which I have not yet tried, to get it to work 
well on two perhaps three bands. I have used this scheme to feed Half 
Squares and other types of phased vertical arrays.

If of any interest to you please let me know and I will send you a diagram.

73,
Geoff
GM4ESD


Kristinn, TF3KX, wrote on Friday, May 09, 2008 3:07 AM

> Summer is around the corner (finally here, up at the arctic circle). 
> Those
> of you organized enough to have the K2 ready to be taken on the road or on
> the trail on a short notice, what do you have in that travel kit, aside 
> from
> the K2 itself?
>
> CW-key, mike, headphones, log book, pre-cut antenna wire, telescoping
> pole,...?