[Elecraft] Elecraft AX-1 Whip Antenna

[Wayne Burdick]

The wire drags behind you. This is why we sometimes call it a "dragged counterpoise."

The wire supplied with the AX1, AX2, and AXE1 is quite slippery and unlikely to snag on anything. I've dragged it between cacti in the deserts of New Mexico; across serpentine outcrops along the Pacific coast; and though the urban jungles of Belmont, California, bristling with spiky xeriscape.

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> On Sep 24, 2022, at 7:41 AM, <john at kk9a.com> <john at kk9a.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm curious about your pedestrian mobile statement.  What do you do with the
> 13 foot counterpoise, does it drag behind you when walking? I doubt that you
> can make a QSO without it.  Also with the 13 foot counterpoise, what 20m
> frequency is the AX1 resonant on?
> 
> John KK9A 
> 
> 
> Dan Presley n7cqr wrote:
> 
> Second-I want to hear from Dave AB7E in particular what antenna(s) you use
> when you're operating in the field,and specifically when you can't set up a
> wire; maybe no trees or a bare summit, or as Thomas K4SWL talks about-when
> you really don't or can't throw up a wire (check out his blog on recent
> operations in Canada). Or pedestrian mobile. So far I've seen nothing that
> is as compact,lightweight  and easily packable as the AX1 or 2, and that's
> important to me when  I'm hiking. 
> 
> Dan Presley 503-701-3871
> danpresley at me. com 
> N7CQR at arrl.net
> 
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