[Elecraft] kx1 and earchi

[Chip Stratton]

Try about 12 feet of RG-174 between your rig and your earchi transformer.
That will make your .05 wl counterpoise for 80m without much weight and
without much loss on the higher frequency bands.

Chip
AE5KA

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 6:42 AM, kg8jk <kg8jk at qsl.net> wrote:

> Just picked up a couple of toroids at a swap and want to make an earchi
> antenna for the kx1. As I want to take this backpacking the plan is to
> connect directly to the radio and use a counterpoise instead of using coax
> in order to save weight. Has anybody found the secret length for the
> antenna
> to tune 20-80? How about counterpoise length? I did see a post that
> suggested that over .05 wl on the counterpoise for an EFHW didn't yield
> much
> improvement on performance.
>
> Just wanting to keep things as light as possible. Not even sure if I will
> use a case for the toroid, maybe just a pigtail with a bnc on it.
>
> 73
> KG8JK
>
>
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