[Elecraft] QRP, Portable, and Compromise Antennas

[Phil Hystad]

Bill,

I would say I am way ahead of you but I am ahead of you but maybe not.  I am also considering buying a vertical antenna and mounting it (a temporary easy to put up portable mount) on my truck (maybe a stake hole or something else I fashion together).  So, this would not be a dipole but I was thinking of laying out some ground plane wires too.  Again, I need time to experiment with this.

PEH

On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Bill W4ZV wrote:

> 
> 
> Phil Hystad-3 wrote:
>> 
>> I have a 35 foot long fiberglass telescoping pole that I stick in one of
>> the stake holes of my pickup truck.  Then, with the center of my dipole
>> attached to the top and coax already connected I extend the pole up to its
>> full 35 foot length which puts the top of the dipole at 40 feet.  This can
>> be done only when there is no wind as the top is not very stable as I have
>> already discovered.  The ends of the dipole, sort of a inverted-V dipole,
>> are connected to 6 foot long poles I pound into the sand a little bit,
>> just enough for a stable anchor.
>> 
> 
> IMO you'd do far better configuring your antenna as a vertical dipole over
> salt water.
> 
> http://pages.prodigy.net/k2kw/dxcomp.htm
> http://www.elecraft.com/DXpeditions/QRP_is.pdf
> http://pages.prodigy.net/k2kw/learning.html
> 
> 73,  Bill
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