[Elecraft] 43' Vertical

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Jim, In June a put a ZeroFive 43'er up and initially fed it with an SGC tuner at the base ( I live on the water on the Jersey coast and only had about 10 random length radials and one ground rod.) 


With the SGC tuner I could operate anywhere from 160 - 6 meters. Unfortunately a nearby lightning strike took out a few diodes in the SGC and I replaced it with a 4:1 balun and used the internal tuner in my K3. Worked fine 80 thru 10, on 160 it was difficult to find a match near 2:1. Similarly on 6 meters - a match was only possible on a narrow band just above 50.1mhz. 


>From June to early August (WAE weekend) I logged about 120 countries. 


Pete // KU2C