[Elecraft] KXPA100 Mobile Operations

[Ken G Kopp]

A couple of thoughts, derived from a million miles of HF mobling.

Remember, most of the usable radiation ... by far ... from any
center-loaded
antenna is from the portion -below- the coil, and the "Q" of the loading
coil
is -extremely- important.

Read Alan, K0BG's mobiling website ... a must-read- for any serious mobiler.

Hustler's mobile antennas are always at or near the bottom of listed results
at mobile antenna "shoot-outs".  Their coil forms are very lossy and the
white
shrink tubing used to cover the coils fits so poorly that "standing" water
will
collect under the cover.  I once literally had steaming water dripping out
of
one after running 100W while driving in the rain on 75M. (;-(

73!

Ken - K0PP

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On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Matt Zilmer <mzilmer at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> Oh... probably not.  I've seen a couple Civics with Hi-Qs.  Both had