[Elecraft] [OT] Re: Can't believe my Chameleon Antenna!

[Fred Jensen]

On 11/21/2012 3:56 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:

> Life is a trade-off.  The tri-bander offered better gain on three bands.
> The log likely offered near seamless frequency agility from 3 to 30 MHz
> without the need for tuners and such.
>
> I guess we'll keep searching for that perfect antenna.  :-)

Well, with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics planted firmly in one cheek ... 
I want 3-30 MHz with at least 10 dB gain.  Don't we all? :-)  Big 
doesn't always do it in all departments.  In the coastal marine service 
in 1956/7, our transmit [and receive] antennas were huge by ham 
standards ... unless you were W6AM.  Unfortunately, one antenna per 
transmit frequency, and most of the HF receive frequencies too.

I was just stunned by that LP.  I was 23, fresh out of college, a ham 
for 10 years, but 5 of those were in college, basic training, and 
officers' school, and pretty much QRT.  Biggest beam I'd ever seen.  I 
was equally stunned when I found out exactly how it worked.

73,

Fred K6DGW
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