[Elecraft] Can Anyone recommended a great QRP Antenna and Antenna Pole for KX3

[sancho]

Mike, All,

I am with Fred on this call - particularly from a hi-rise hotel balcony at a resort. My best results have been with an Alex Walkham Magloop (has a nice small carry on bag that also fits in my suitcase) closely followed by the Superantenna MP-1 which fits in an old Targus laptop bag. I think some hotel management groups take poorly to 'fishing' off the 17th floor balcony of their prime ocean view tower. Last time I did that was the last time I'll ever try using an End Fed Vertical Wire hung from a fishing rod (it was a surfcaster)... even after dark. 

If I hadn't been a top tier frequent stay guest with the company, it might have gotten ugly. Some guest below reported me for dropping a camera to look into rooms... It was just a small weighted ball on the end of the wire. The manager was polite, but asked me not to do it. I was using the FT - 817 at the time so I luckily wound up only restricted to UHF/VHF ops and suffered a temporary reddened face. Glad it was a short stay.

Never had the problem with the other two antenna configurations.

Jack KD4IZ
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> On Apr 2, 2017, at 20:08, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
> 
> ICYDK,
> 
> Crappie [n. KRAA-pee] A genus, pomoxis, of North American freshwater fish in the sunfish family Centrarchidae.
> 
> Crappy [adj. KRAA-pee] 1. Of or denoting very inferior construction.  2. Denoting any bad condition, object, utterance, or occurrence.
> 
> "Pole" is the operative word here, fish make very poor antennas and they don't last very long, just as crappy crappie poles don't last long either. [:-)
> 
> I'm still a mag loop fan after trying all the rest.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred ("Skip") K6DGW
> Sparks NV USA
> Washoe County DM09dn
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>> On 4/2/2017 1:54 PM, Scott McDonald via Elecraft wrote:
>> Hey Mike.
>> 
>> For a trip to ZF last month, I took several old Walmart crappie pole pieces and built a 22 foot mast by judiciously selecting and cutting pieces no longer than 28 inches so that the sections would stack and the disassembled antenna would fit diagonally in my suitcase.
> 
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