[Elecraft] KX-1 Ideal Antenna

[Albers]

Well, lots of suggestions for trap dipoles, multiple insulators with jumpers, etc etc. 

But I get excellent results with my simple antenna. I posted about this 4 or 5 years ago. I went to Radio Shack and bought a 50 ft roll of loudspeaker wire. I un-zipped it. Turns out actual length of each leg is 51 ft 8 in, but I doubt the length is critical. One leg goes as high in the air as I can get it with available supports. Sloper or inverted L or whatever. Other leg lies on the ground. Direction doesn't seem to matter. ATU loads it just fine on all three bands and has given me many nice QSOs including some trans-continental and transatlantic.

73
Ray K2HYD
KX-1 #608