Hi Wayne, Yes, I do that too especially on the low bands like 30 on down. I have found, though, that with the long 9' whips, the bandwidth and SWR is low enough on 20 and up that I don't even need to use my tuners, especially since I'm normally down in the CW portions. On 15 and below the overall length is long enough to form a full sized dipole without the coils. I can go around the entire globe on 15 with the Buddipole at my selected /p spots I've found in my local area. One is outside of town on top of a really high hill (probably about 7100' above sea level) and another is in a state park in the Sangre De Christo mountains back behind town. The campground I deploy at there is around 10,000 feet, so with the Buddipole setup as a full length dipole, I have no trouble working the world on 10 watts if the bands are good.
And with the tuners, I can be lazy and use my 100' center-fed random wire in inverted V for everything. The only band the tuners have to hunt around on with it is 17 meters and they usually can only get down to about 1.7 SWR (there's probably a current node at the feed point at 18mhz which I could probably reduce by tweaking the wire length a little bit). But even the tuner in the K2 can handle the wire antenna on all bands with no trouble. So I always buy tuners for all my K's.... Tnx es 73, LS W5QD -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Strong-recommendation-MFJ-18xx-series-single-band-whips-for-KX3-etc-tp7615498p7615526.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.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
