I moved my inverted "L", a 176 foot long, 55 foot high wire in the trees, from my shack to a post with an SGC 230 tuner about 100 feet away from the shack. The noise level on receive went down about 3 S units. I live in a quiet, rural location, and, as a side benefit, the antenna is no longer visible. Its located just into a wooded area and the neighbors and XYL are happy, too. Only problem is, with a total of 140 feet of coax, it requires more than QRP power to tune, on some bands. The SGC 230 requires 3 watts, but the loses on an untuned line are great enough that I can't use my K1 on 15 meters. The KX3 should have enough power to tune on all bands. Another possibility would be to use a remotely tuned network for each band to get the SWR close, and do the final tuning in the shack.
73, Rick Dettinger K7MW > I have an inverted L myself, and have often thought of adding the > SGC230 to > allow me to have a feed point farther from the 'shack'. > > > 73, > > Ron AC7AC > ______________________________________________________________ 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
