Oops, Jim I use two antennas here at my place. For 80 and 160 I use a 170 foot long wire running from just over my feed line entry to a point 40 ft below a branch on a 75 ft pine, up to to the branch and over to another tree ( kinda like a "Z"). This is fed to an "L Match" made from a section of coil and a variable capacitor for 80 and I add an additional fixed cap for 160.
For higher bands I have a 40-20-10 meter "fan" dipole that my K-Line (& my KX3-Line") will tune on 40-20-17-15-12-10-6 meters. Many will say "it can't work" but please don't tell my radios! The Elecraft tuners can tune anything! I once worked a friend who'd just moved and was using a "GutterTron" ant in the CQWW. Yeah, the gutter and downspout fed against a ground-rod. Another friend loaded up the liner in his chimney, called a GutterTron. Have fun. Try anything. It just might work. You can make a lot of antennas from a $45.00 spool of THHN and plastic "cutting" board from Walmart. About 2/3rds the price of a G5RV. Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill > On Jul 4, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Jim GM <jim.gmfo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > What antenna lengths are you using on 160M with your KX3 or KXPA100 > internal tuner? What is best for 160-6 meters? I like making my own > antennas with wire. > > I usually have to give up one band or another cause it just would not tune > up on a certain band. > > I have tried to stay with in these guide lines. > > -- > Jim K9TF > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to n...@widomaker.com ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
