At 03:16 PM 5/11/2012 +0000, va3...@gmail.com wrote: >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
Without doubt the best kind of antenna given the environment you describe is a small tuned loop. How well it works will depend on how well it is built (literally). The quality of the loop material and the tuning capacitor will determine the overall efficiency (and effectiveness) of the antenna. The buddipole in either the vertical or dipole arrangement will only come into its own when outside and away (to some degree) from interfering structures. I have had success with a tuned small loop indoors but not so with center fed or end fed dipoles. However they (longer dipoles) work well even a few feet outside the building ... eg. I used a bent up wire dipole made of invisible fishing wire suspended a couple of feed away from a balcony with thin bamboo poles ... it worked vy well on cw and PSK. 73 Jim, VE3CI ______________________________________________________________ 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
