[Elecraft] [KX3] Field antenna tip

[Wayne Burdick]

Hot, though it wouldn't matter. I was just using the post as a coil form.

Wayne


On Jul 26, 2016, at 10:24 AM, Rick Tavan rtavan at gmail.com [KX3] <KX3-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

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> Was this on the hot side or the counterpoise?
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> /Rick
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> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Wayne Burdick n6kr at elecraft.com [KX3] <KX3-noreply at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> This weekend I was using the KX2 with a random length of wire tossed in a tree and another random length laid on the ground. Normally the ATU (KXAT2) can handle just about anything, but this particular combination of lengths wasn't working well on 40 m; SWR was still around 3:1 after matching. It probably looked like an end-fed half wave to the tuner.
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> The wires were connected to a BNC-to-binding post adapter, suggesting a simple workaround. Rather than adjust the length of the wire by cutting or splicing, I simply reeled in a few feet of it and wrapped it around one of the binding posts, forming an inductor of perhaps several uH. 
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> The ATU was then able to match the antenna on 40 m, as well as the other bands (up through 10 m). 
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> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
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> Rick Tavan
> Truckee, CA
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