[Elecraft] KX-1 what do you use for an antenna when you're in a place with no trees to throw the vertical up?

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

You've shown again that when it comes to an antenna, size does matter.
Especially when the physical length is less than 1/2 wavelength, every
little bit of additional length helps a lot!

It's pretty easy to achieve resonance with a short antenna using loading
coils but until we have room-temperature superconductors cheap enough to use
for a Ham antenna, short, loaded antennas will always be very inefficient.
That doesn't' mean they won't "get out" or even work DX under the right
conditions, but they'll still be a distant second to anything larger. 

Ron AC7AC 

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Prior
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 1:27 PM
To: Garrett, Russ; elecraft
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX-1 what do you use for an antenna when you're in a
place with no trees to throw the vertical up?

Russ

I camp with my KX-1 (and the family!) in Europe every summer.  I have tried
the buddipole, buddistick and the MP-1, but there is one antenna I've tried
which surpasses them all, in my experience and opinion.

I have a DK9SQ 10 metre long 'fishing pole'.  I connect a 12m or so length
of wire to the top, allowing it to hang down vertically.  I normally bungee
the pole to a tent or car door handle, whatever is available.  I use a
variable length counterpoise (teflon wire on a reel) which I just measure
out roughly a quarter wavelength for the band of interest along the ground
and then use the autotuner in the KX-1.  I'm not interested so much in 80m,
but it covers 40, 30 and 20m just fine and I get far more qsos than I did
before with the admittedly neater, yet significantly more expensive
alternatives.  There may be other poles of this length, but I can thoroughly
recommend the DK9SQ 'mast' and I'm pretty sure I've seen it advertised your
side of the pond.

Hope that's food for thought.

73 Stephen G4SJP  (about to book the sea crossing for the next trip to
mainland Europe :-))


On 25/02/2009 21:04, "Garrett, Russ" <Russ.Garrett at bullivant.com> wrote:

> 
> I have a camping trip planned and will likely be in a few places where
> there are no trees where I will easily get a vertical wire up.  What
> does everyone else do when the surroundings are not ideal for a wire in
> a tree?  I have seen other antennas referenced such as the buddystick
> and the PAC-12.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Russ Garrett
> Kd7mpk  
> 
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