>Well, lots of suggestions for trap dipoles, multiple insulators with jumpers, >etc etc.
>But I get excellent results with my simple antenna. I posted about this 4 or 5 >years ago. I went to Radio Shack and bought a 50 ft roll of loudspeaker wire. >I un-zipped it. Turns out actual length of each leg is >51 ft 8 in, but I >doubt the length is critical. One leg goes as high in the air as I can get it >with available supports. Sloper or inverted L or whatever. Other leg lies on >the ground. Direction doesn't seem to matter. >ATU loads it just fine on all >three bands and has given me many nice QSOs including some trans-continental >and transatlantic. >73 >Ray K2HYD >KX-1 #608 I have also had pretty good luck with an end-fed 51 foot wire erected as an inverted-vee. I have worked this again 5 radials each 16 feet long and it will match and work fine on 40m / 30m /20m with my KX1 internal tuner. I don't have 80m in my KX1 so I can't comment on that band. I also use a homebrew G5RV JR (51 feet) feed with 14 ft of TV twinlead attached to about 30 feet of RG-6 (with ten turns of the coax wound on a 6" form to create a choke balun). I also sometimes use a "clip-lead" dipole for 40m/30m/20m or a 44 ft doublet (aka Norcal doublet) and have had great luck with all of these. It would be a challenge to find an antenna that will also match on 80m as the KX1 internal tuner is really not well suited for matching on 80m due to its limited range of switched inductance. If a 51 foot end-fed wire doesn't give a good match on 80m then one could add some additional inductance via a home-brew coil inserted in series to help the tuner out. It also might worth trying a W3EDP or alternately an 86 foot end-fed wire worked against some ground radials. This is a good length for multi-band operation as it is not a multiple of a half-wave on any amateur HF band. Michael VE3WMB ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
