---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Robin Bayer <rmbaye...@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:50 AM Subject: A good antenna To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net
For a year or more now I have been using a simple, near to 40m vertical delta loop with the peak at about 33 feet and fed with a random length of ladder lineby a remote auto tuner and BL2 4:1 Balun contained in a water resistant box below the mast. Tuner is a MFJ 993b I think. Tunes well 6m through 160m. Not very great performance on 80 and 160m but have made some contacts. I really only use 80m for the QRP fox hunts with some success. Easy to use except the tuner likes 20watts for fast tuning. SSometimes I have to tune twice. Once to allow the KAT2 to lower the swr and allow full output. Then the remote tunes. Then I retune or bypass the K2 tuner. Hunts a little a little while using 5w on some bands. Many evenings I will set the K2 on a table under the K2 using its internal tuner and BL2 to directly feed the ladder line and loop which is fed to a lower corner. K2 tunes 10-80m easily. You can see my setup on my qrz page. Robin KA5QQA ______________________________________________________________ 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
