[Elecraft] KX3 Re: Travel antennas - outside with rig inside

[Fred Jensen]

OK, that will undoubtedly work.  If you're 5 ft from the window, you 
don't really need to remote the tuner, but that'll work fine.  Main idea 
is just to get the high current parts of the antenna outside and as 
clear as possible.  I sometimes use a short [~8 ft] pigtail of RG-58 
with my KX1 just to get the wire up and clear a little more.  The KX1 
ATU handles it just fine.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012
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On 7/20/2012 1:40 PM, Steve KC8QVO wrote:
> I should have been more specific on the rig - it is a KX3. I wrote that post
> in the morning when I was eating breakfast in a hurry to get out the door
> HI.
>
> I have an LDG Z11-pro tuner. I have used it in remote situations a lot in
> the past, with coax to the rig. Usually I end up running a 12v battery for
> the tuner to run off (7Ah SLA). However, I have plans to put AA battery
> cases in side (8 AA cells). A friend of mine has done this and it works out
> great. This may be the best route for me. I do have a 1:1 balun to use with
> it also (the LDG version), but I am in the works on making a more compact
> one.