[Elecraft] Multiband end-fed dipole with KX1

[John Flynn]

Good Day Paul,

My first rig was a KX1 and I ran an end-fed wire (34' as I recall) with
three counterpoises. It worked on 20, 30, and 40 quite well. It wouldn't
load on 80, but I made QSOs with it anyway. A year or so later I bought a
KX3 and ran the same antenna with good results. Then about 6 months ago, I
bought the EARCHI EFHW. I'm using the suggested setup--30' wire to the
matchbox with 25' of coax.The KX3 loves it and it loads 6 though 80 FB--160
not so well. The only drawback is the counterpoise.

Just for grins I took out the trusty KX1 and tried it on the EARCHI, The AT
didn't like it. SWL was 2.0 where with it was 1.0--1.3  consistently with
the simple wire-counterpoise setup. So, maybe I need to lengthen the wire
as another poster noted.

Just FYI see http://www.sotabeams.co.uk/efhw/ for a discussion of EFHW.

72

John K4ARQ


On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 5:59 AM, PGSchreier <PGSchreier at swissonline.ch>wrote:

> Hi gang,
>
> I would like to find a 40/30/20 meter end-fed dipole I can run with my KX1
> and its tuner. (I'm not crazy about linked dipoles for a number of reasons.)
>
> Are you familiar with any end-fed design that will handle all three bands
> well?
>
> For instance, does anyone have any experience with the EndFed 40-6m
> Antenna from W1SFR?
> http://kx3helper.com/endfed-40-6m-antenna/
>
> Thanks for any tips!
> Paul  AA1MI / HB9DST
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John Flynn
Tallahassee, Florida
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