[Elecraft] Portable antennas for use in UK

[Jon K Hellan]

On 09/10/2012 04:17 PM, David Cutter wrote:
> 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?
>
I find it manageble if I stand on a chair. The sections of the 18m pole 
are 1.5 m long (5 ft).
So without the chair, the section being lifted is uncomfortably high up. 
But the 12m pole is a lot easier to handle.

Jon

> 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
>>