[Elecraft] Fwd: A good antenna Length

[Robin Bayer]

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From: Robin Bayer <rmbayer62 at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:50 AM
Subject: A good antenna
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net


For a year or more now I have been using a simple, near to 40m vertical
delta loop with the peak at about 33 feet and fed with a random length of
ladder lineby a remote auto tuner and BL2 4:1 Balun contained in a water
resistant box below the mast. Tuner is a MFJ 993b I think. Tunes well 6m
through 160m. Not very great performance on 80 and 160m but have made some
contacts. I really only use 80m for the QRP fox hunts with some success.
Easy to use except the tuner likes 20watts for fast tuning. SSometimes I
have to tune twice. Once to allow the KAT2 to lower the swr and allow full
output. Then the remote tunes. Then I retune or bypass the K2 tuner.  Hunts
a little a little while using 5w on some bands. Many evenings I will set
the K2 on a table under the K2 using its internal tuner and BL2 to directly
feed the ladder line and loop which is fed to a lower corner. K2  tunes
10-80m easily.

You can see my setup on my qrz page.



Robin

KA5QQA