I too would like to hear the answers to this question! But I have an added question and thought. What are reasonable expectations to being able to work much with an in the motel room antenna? I would expect a lot of noise, a lot of shielding and need to use 40 or 80a meters at night which is rougher to do with short antennas. My approach would be Internet access to a rig at home. The thought is that one could test out indoor antennas in their own shack to see how various things work. Second thought, particularly with respect to small loops, I wonder if they would be useful to home use (primarily as a receive antenna assuming the presence of better outside antennas for transmitting) being easy to rotate by hand to try to null noise or QRM. 73 - Mike WA8BXN -------Original Message------- From: va3...@gmail.com Date: 5/11/2012 11:27:40 AM To: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net; k6...@foothill.net Cc: Elecraft list Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Portable Antennas (near end fed) I for one am in a quandary on what to get at Dayton A buddipole, Alex loop, or g4tph. Being a road warrior, need a good working interior (most times hotel rooms are not accessible to the outside) portable And a partridge in a pear tree as well :-) Robert A 'kosher' ham Sent from my BlackBerry device -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Prior <eastbrantw...@gmail.com> Sender: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 08:55:54 To: k6...@foothill.net<k6...@foothill.net> Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net<elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Portable Antennas (near end fed) Hi Fred I have been very tempted by the Alex-loop, but in the meantime have just Bought one of G4TPH's loops which I shall put through its paces when the Weather improves! I should imagine that the insensitivity to electric Fields in the near field would be an advantage in electrically noisy Environments. Even a campsite can be very noisy with the inverters from RVs And the like spewing out rf everywhere. I'm spoilt for choice of antennas to play with once the KX3 arrives! 73 Stephen G4SJP On Wednesday, 9 May 2012, Fred Jensen wrote: > I haven't been following this thread closely but has anyone mentioned a > small magnetic loop like the Alex-Loop? I've got a good SOTA friend who > uses one and loves it. > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 > - www.cqp.org > > On 5/9/2012 2:47 AM, David Cutter wrote: > > What I particularly like about the near end fed is that you are more in > > control of the local stray capacitances and such like and you only need > > one slender wire in the sky. I wrote a power point on the subject which > > needs a bit of massage but I can send it to you for interest. > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net <javascript:;> > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > -- Sent from Gmail Mobile ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
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