Hi Jon I tried a Hams4Hams 18m pole and I am not strong enough to push it up vertically. The Spider pole is even heavier, how do you extend the Spider pole?
73 David G3UNA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Kåre Hellan" <hel...@acm.org> To: <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2012 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Portable antennas for use in UK > > You could get a 12m telescopic fiberglass pole from Spiderbeam and use > whatever wire antenna you want with it. Use it as a center support for > an inv vee or for a wire vertical. My own crazy balcony antenna is a > full size vertical for 40m with two radials, can be erected or taken > down in less than a minute. http://www.ha19.no/la4rt/balcony.jpg. The K3 > tuner is able to tune it on all bands from 80m to 6m, that's when I'm > lazy. It's also easy to take it down and put up an antenna cut for a > different band, if you worry about loss or want to use an amp. I > understand that the tuner in the KX3 is just as versatile as the one in > the K3. > > Used as a support for an inv vee, don't use the top two or three > sections. They're too flimsy. > > 73 > Jon LA4RT > ______________________________________________________________ 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
