[Elecraft] [KX1,K1,KX3] QRP Portable Antenna

[Phil Hystad]

I have operated my KX1 out in various parks and fields by hanging one end of a wire up in a tree that I would raise using fishing line and a sling shot.  I have the KX1 and the little T1 tuner.  I have had some reasonable performance but maybe not as good as I can get.

A while back, Wayne said that he would use just a single wire up in the tree and then another wire laying on the ground as sort of a ground plane.  I have not done this and I am wondering...

1.  Is more then a single ground wire (wire laying along the ground) good enough or would two or three be better?

2.  My wire antenna has usually been on the order of 50 feet but it also depends on how close I get for reasonable operating position (e.g. picnic table)?  So, would a ground wire need to be the same length or would half the length be as reasonable.

3.  How does this compare to a Buddipole antenna?

Anyone?

73, phil, K7PEH