Thanks for all the replies. Leaves me with a lot of questions. My shack is located in the basement, and the only way to get RF out is by a rather circuitous route through a couple of walls, so I don't think open wire line is possible. The antenna wire is then fed at the ground end. If I shorted braid-to-center at the rig and fed the whole thing as a wire I have a problem with where to put the counterpoise. I don't have room for radials attached to the case of the rig, and don't have direct access to earth-ground.
I gather mismatch at the feed point is the major concern, so do ya think something like the par electronic end-fed 'dipole' would be better? Bennie, any idea when the DLRDLL-EndFedZ will be available? Tom -----Original Message----- From: Hank Kohl K8DD [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 4:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: tom.w3qs; Subject: Re: [Elecraft] The K2 and Random Antennas Tom .... I would agree with Don! The K2 & KAT2 should match it great ..... with or without the radials. When I was a young General in about 1959 or 60 I had great luck on 80 & 20 AM with a 60 - 65' longwire from the second floor window out to a tree. The shack was on the first floor with about 40 ft of coax of questionable quality, and I used a tuner. (WRL Globe Chief 90, homebrew cathode modulator, WRL tuner and an SX-99 and a homebrew TR switch). The more OT's that told me it shouldn't work, especially with no ground, the better it seemed to work! Give it a try and be sure to report back when you put the K2 & KAT2 on it. 72 73 Hank K8DD W3FPR - Don Wilhelm wrote: >Tom, > >The KAT2 should adequately match the antenna system that you have, but >I would recommend that you scrap the coax and feed it with open wire >line because the feedpoint impedance on 40 meters and above should be a >lot greater than 50 ohms - the line losses and SWR on the feedline >should be rather high. > >BTW, you could add a couple radials cut for 80 meters and use it on >that band too - the 60 ft wire is almost a quarter wave on 80 and it >should behave similar to a 60 ft high vertical (with some horizontal >radiation too depending on how much it slopes) > >73, >Don W3FPR > > > >>-----Original Message----- >> >>I'm about to order my K2 and I have a load of questions, but just one >>for now. >> -- 'Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.' -anon _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
