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[Wayne Burdick]

This will vary from one installation to the next. 

When I'm not traveling ultralight, I carry a BL2 balun with me. The BL2 has a 4:1 / 1:1 switch so you can try both positions. This will almost always expand the range of bands you can cover with a given ad-hoc antenna. As noted, the balun also tends to reduce RFI on the enclosure and mic.

73,
Wayne
N6KR



On Jan 29, 2017, at 10:23 PM, Brian “VE3BWP” Pietrzyk <ve3bwp at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Wayne,
> 
> If we're connecting the random wire and counterpoise directly to the kx2 or Kx3 bnc via the binding post adapter is a 9:1 an improvement or is the tuner able to drive it directly just the same?
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> Brian ve3bwp
> 
>> Message: 17
>> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 18:52:26 -0800
>> From: Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>
>> To: Jeff Crilly <jeffcrilly at gmail.com>
>> Cc: "KX3 at yahoogroups.com" <KX3 at yahoogroups.com>,    Elecraft Reflector
>>    <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>,    Tom McCulloch <thom2 at att.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] The "Kinda Random Antenna" (was: Random
>>    wire    lengths for antennas)
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>> 
>> Have you tried this with a low-power balun mounted right at the antenna jack? That will often help with RFI issues.
>> 
>> Wayne
>> N6KR
>> 
>> On Jan 29, 2017, at 6:03 PM, Jeff Crilly <jeffcrilly at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> So I tried this out...   using a ~26 foot wire ...