[Elecraft] Best Antenna Portable/Tabletop Operation for KX3

[Jim Lowman]

If you want something reasonably portable that will deploy quickly, you 
might consider the EFHW vertical antenna from the Emergency Amateur 
Radio Club in Hawaii:

http://www.earchi.org/92011endfedfiles/Endfed6_40.pdf

You can buy some or all of the parts needed from the club, and the cost 
includes Priority Mail shipping.
The complete parts list an instructions are in the PDF file if you want 
to roll your own.

I hate radials, so this turned out to be a great antenna.  None required!

You can hang it in a tree, or mount it on something like a 33-foot 
Jackite Pole.

I've lost the source, but there is a video on YouTube that shows a ham 
in New York setting one up in an old umbrella stand on his deck.
Check this out, also:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWkpQ785Pjo&noredirect=1

73 de Jim - AD6CW

On 1/28/2013 6:12 AM, Dr. William J. Schmidt, II wrote:
> Convenient low gain options: Long-wires are easy, cheap, and wonderful.
> Kites, balloons, weights tossed into tree limbs with fishing line, dangling
> down the side of buildings, etc.  Push-up verticals are great too, but they
> need a counter poise of some sort (for the other half of the antenna... as
> it were), so include at least 3 radials (three obviously because they will
> be elevated... not dug into the ground for portable ops).
>
> Convenient portable gain options: 30-6 meters...Superantenna YP3 and
> portable tower is very worthy trapped beam antenna (I use this on dxpedition
> every year with amazing success), Spider beams, other wire beams that are
> simple to assemble... like wire verticals or delta loops.  All excellent
> choices... There are many antennas in the category that others will fill in
> as favorites.
>
>