I would be in real trouble if I could not use wire antennas. All of my antennas are in my attic. They consist of a full wave 40M loop fed thru the little Elecraft balun via a short run of 450 ohm ladder line, a 65' marconi (end fed "random" wire) in an "inverted U" configuration fed thru a Balun Designs UNUN , and a 5 band vertical dipole that is center loaded. The ATU in my K3 does an excellent job of matching this variety of antennas. I get great signal reports, particularly off of the "inverted U" on 40,75, and 80 meters and find myself busting DX pileups with a barefoot K3/100. It is quite interesting to switch between the antennas and note the performance under varying band conditions.
73s Jim, W4ATK On Jun 26, 2012, at 9:55 PM, Jeff Herr wrote: > I know folks who have had bad experiences using a "random" wire with an ATU. > > Although I ordered a buddipole with the kx3 I still am interested in getting > A 74 foot length of wire up in the pine trees (I will have a counterpoise) > while up in the > Lassen national forest.....we go there a lot. > > When I mention this I am met with much skepticism. > > Am I way off base? Is this beyond the capabilities of the tuner? > Is there a descriptive spec for the tuner that describes the range of it > matching capability? > > WW6L > > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
