FWIW, The Icom 706 MK2G that got displaced from my shack with the arrival of the K3 landed in our Toyota 4Runner. It is driving a Little Tarheel screwdriver antenna on HF and 6M. The antenna is tuned with the up/down switch included with it. I tune by getting the band noise peek and then tuning for minimum SWR as shown on the Icom's display.
I have had fun with this setup, including climbing to the top of the pileup with a European station on 15M while riding across the Mojave desert while my wife was driving. He was working stations all over north and south America. Cheers - Bill, AE6JV On 9/2/12 at 7:30, jpoc.y...@gmail.com (JP O'Connor) wrote: >What antenna and tuning device/procedure are you planning to use? (Right >now I have a Yaesu FT-857D with the ATAS-120A antenna, so tuning the >antenna is a simple one button operation. Of course, the radio has nowhere >near the dynamic range and capability of the KX3! Thus the planned change.) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Privacy is dead, get over | Periwinkle (408)356-8506 | it. | 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com | - Scott McNealy | Los Gatos, CA 95032 ______________________________________________________________ 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
