[Elecraft] Home and portable antenna issues.....

[Mel Farrer via Elecraft]

I like the Traheel for portable with any length wire you can add.  At home QTH, I need to ask if you have access to the eves of the roof?  Any amount of #18 tin plated copper wire added up and around the eves will do amazingly well on LP.  I had access to a 24 foot ladder and screwed in the old insulated TV antenna standoffs and ran it around the house. If you can make it a loop, you can feed it with a 4:1 balun and work a lot of bands with a tuner.  Closed loop is much more quiet than a end fed.  

Mel, K6KBE

      From: Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com>
 To: Mark Tellez <aar6ea at gmail.com> 
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net 
 Sent: Monday, March 9, 2015 12:59 PM
 Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Home and portable antenna issues.....
   
For home use, <http://www.n6bt.com/> has a 7 foot tall lawn 
sculpture which operates on 20, 17 and 15. It doesn't look like 
an antenna. It is new, and I don't have any experience with it.

I have a Little Tarheel II antenna on my 4Runner. It works well 
on the higher frequencies. I used it with a K3/10 on 80M during 
the California QSO party and every single station I managed to 
contact said I was way down in the noise.

I have been impressed with the CrankIR 
<http://www.steppir.com/crankir-vertical-and-dipole> idea. 
However, While I don't have any experience with it, I think it 
is worth a look.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 3/9/15 at 9:48 AM, aar6ea at gmail.com (Mark Tellez) wrote:

>My main concern with portable use is weight.  My main concern with home use
>is low visibility and also needing an antenna that works "well" close to
>the ground since I'm in a ground floor condo.

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