[Elecraft] HFp portable vertical antenna

[stan levandowski]

Thank you, John.  FYI both OM3DX and IZ4RTE had K3s and I was using my 
K1.  Looks like Elecraft is "taking over the world" !!

I have a new philosophy -- " If you want a radio buy an Elecraft; if you 
want a key by a Begali - PERIOD - No further discussion"  !!!

Maybe I'll make myself up a T-Shirt that says that exact thing!

Regarding "gloomy predictions"  -- I spent most of my adult, working 
life in a field (IBM) where we lived strictly by the math.  Now, 
retired, I am moving over to the "empiracal evidence" side of the 
equation.  If it seems to work........by golly, maybe it does!


73, Stan WB2LQF
KX1 #2411    K1#2994    K2# 6980    K3#5244     K9 #1 (Cocoa the 
Chihuahua)
Everything is QRP, even the dog.




On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 9:20 PM, VK7JB wrote:

> I enjoyed your video very much Stan.  Thanks for posting it.  It's 
> great to
> see the little K1 in action and working DX with 5W.  I use a 
> Buddistick
> antenna with quite some success.  Like you, I prefer the simplicity of 
> a
> simple wire over a tree for portable work, but I enjoy working from 
> desert
> country, where there aren't many trees, so for  little expeditions 
> into
> nowhere, these verticals have an especially useful position in my 
> antenna
> wardrobe.  I hadn't heard of the HFp, but I'll give it a look now.
>
> Incidentally, although these short verticals with a couple of radials 
> model
> as being quite inefficient, I've found they do work well in practice. 
> From
> VK7, I've worked a station in the UK on SSB phone - I was running only 
> 5W
> into my Buddistick we had a chat for over 30 minutes on 20m.   I've 
> also
> worked a paedestrian mobile station in the UK  - I  was running 40W 
> into the
> Buddistick with a single radial.  The amazing thing was that the 
> paedestrian
> mobile station was running 500mW, all on SSB phone!
> That taught me to treat gloomy predications about "compromised" or
> "inefficient" antennas with a grain of salt.  It all depends on 
> propagation.
> Great video.  Thanks Stan,
>
> 73,
> John
> VK7JB
>
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