[Elecraft] Portable antennas for use in UK

[Dennis L. Haarsager]

Just returned from another two weeks in the UK, this time bringing my KX3.
My wife and I visit her mother in the Borders area of southeastern Scotland
four (+/-) times a year.  I duplicated Wayne Burdick's kit as closely as
possible, but it's really a nice weather sort of system and, frankly, I've
found there isn't a whole heck of a lot of that in Scotland.

 I use a TransWorld antenna here with very good results, and I hear good
things about the Buddipole.  I'd like to use something like that over there
and just keep it at my mother-in-law's place so I don't incur extra baggage
charges and stress about lost luggage.  Given shipping and potential duty
costs, I'm wondering if there is something portable like the TransWorld or
Buddipole that's made in the UK or perhaps elsewhere in Europe that I could
acquire and store there between trips.  Can anyone make any suggestions?
I'm operating mostly 20 and 17 meters these days, but also interested in 30
and 40 meters.

 By the say, I had no hassles with security with the KX3 either in leaving
the U.S. at Dulles Airport, or in Paris during two transfers, or in
Edinburgh.  I did carry my original license and printouts of CEPT
operations in both English and French in the carrying case, but no one
asked to see them.

 73,
Dennis, N7DH/4
Hillsboro, Virginia