[Elecraft] "random wire" and the KX3 ATU

[Mike Markowski]

Thanks, Mike.  I noticed Jack VE3EED made his calculations using the band
center.  Out of curiosity I just write a little C program that uses band edges
and converts them to half wavelengths.  I plotted the overlapping "red zones"
and, if I didn't make a mistake, came up with slightly different safe lengths. 
The graph and C code are at

  http://udel.edu/~mm/ham/randomWire/

Let me know if you spot errors in the code!  (I didn't include 60m, by the way.)

73,
Mike ab3ap

On 06/27/2012 04:10 PM, Mike WA8BXN wrote:
> [...] to avoid any length that will be a half wave
> or multiple of a half wave on any frequency of interest. Here is one web
> site that addresses the issue: 
> http://www.hamuniverse.com/randomwireantennalengths.html