I agree with Peter and share the same experience as Peter. The antenna works but only in some particular conditions. Waste my time. Of course, I can be blamed about not clever enough to use it. 73 Johnny VR2XMC
寄件人︰ "Petr, OK1RP/M0SIS" <indi...@xsmail.com> 收件人︰ elecraft@mailman.qth.net 傳送日期︰ 2016年04月7日 (週四) 5:41 PM 主題︰ Re: [Elecraft] [k3] Isotropic Antenna Hi Bruce and others, I am sure that David talked about an Isotron antennas like this: https://www.isotronantennas.com/ I intensively tested/used this antenna in 90's on 40m (product from Sigi, DK9FN) and I have to say it is a nightmare in overall. From my own experiences the performance of this toy was highly dependent to the grounding availability, bandwidth was very small and tunning was influenced by ground only but also by closed objects a lot. Also the weather changes made bad impact for SWR like snow, rain etc. Finally in 90's this toy was quite new and like any fashionable piece it was really overpriced. David, As you can see the price these days is not so high but I do not believe that something changed in its performances. If you would like to spend time with playing around it (instead of enjoying the on-air operation) then you can build it ownself as there is nothing magic on it. In any case do not waste your money with buying it. Hope it helps, 73 - Petr, OK1RP ----- http://ok1rp.blogspot.com -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/k3-Isotropic-Antenna-tp7615991p7616011.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 vr2...@yahoo.com.hk ______________________________________________________________ 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