On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 11:34:41 -0700, you wrote: >Hello all and happy 2015! > >I am not new to amateur radio but I am new to the world of QRP. >I recently received a KX3 and would like to try it out. I live in Colorado >and I have access to both a Buddipole and an Alexloop antenna.
I'd recommend a wire antenna. See below. > >I have a few questions as a QRP newbie: > >1) what are the most popular QRP bands for monitoring and what are the main >calling frequencies (day and night)? 30m and 20m seem to be fairly active. I operate CW when QRP, and 14060 / 10106 are good watering holes freqs. I use a wire antenna when portable, and it always works well. The antenna has a 23 foot radiating element and a 16 foot counterpoise, so it's off-center fed. I've used it on 40, 30, 20 and 17m with pretty good success (it can be a little hard to tune on 40m). Using a convenient rock attached to the radiator end, just throw it over a tree with some amount of rope leader then pull the counterpoise out and tie it to whatever's available - usually a tree limb or ground object. This antenna is fed with ladder line and terminates into a BL2 balun set to 1:1. > 73, matt W6NIA Matt Zilmer, W6NIA -- "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." -A. Lincoln ______________________________________________________________ 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
