[Elecraft] Portable antennas for use in UK

[David Cutter]

Hi Jon

I tried a Hams4Hams 18m pole and I am not strong enough to push it up 
vertically.  The Spider pole is even heavier, how do you extend the Spider 
pole?

73

David
G3UNA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Kåre Hellan" <hellan at acm.org>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Portable antennas for use in UK
>
> You could get a 12m telescopic fiberglass pole from Spiderbeam and use
> whatever wire antenna you want with it. Use it as a center support for
> an inv vee or for a wire vertical. My own crazy balcony antenna is a
> full size vertical for 40m with two radials, can be erected or taken
> down in less than a minute. http://www.ha19.no/la4rt/balcony.jpg. The K3
> tuner is able to tune it on all bands from 80m to 6m, that's when I'm
> lazy. It's also easy to take it down and put up an antenna cut for a
> different band, if you worry about loss or want to use an amp. I
> understand that the tuner in the KX3 is just as versatile as the one in
> the K3.
>
> Used as a support for an inv vee, don't use the top two or three
> sections. They're too flimsy.
>
> 73
> Jon LA4RT
>