Perfect explanation to help clarify all the "end fed" confusion. Random is not EFHW! EFHW must be cut at/very near frequency to work with a "tuned" matching circuit. There's so much misinformation, with vendors also making good bucks on EFHW intereset. Lots of "stuff" works but is it efficient? Do you get better radiation? The efficiency of the end feds is too often left out of the conversation. This created headaches for me as I began to study.... Screw it, I have a bunch of antennas ready to go and this includes both tuned EFHW, Randoms and dipoles, yet this evening while sitting in my basement hooked up the~30" 20 meter whip with 11' counterpoise. Heard some signals on a relatively dead band on my full outdoor antennas. Just like Wayne has suggested, try anything, anywhere. My most rewarding contacts have been on a walk about with the short vertical with a trailing wire and working SSB on 20 and 17. God bless the KX2!
-----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Lynn W. Taylor, WB6UUT Sent: Friday, February 10, 2017 12:13 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] EFHW Just a reminder, folks. An End-Fed Half-Wave is a 1/2 wave antenna on the frequency of operation. If it's not a half-wave, then it's a non-resonant wire. Elecraft tuners do a great job tuning non-resonant wires. They won't tune an End-Fed Half-Wave without some help, like a 9:1 un-un. So, when someone says "EFHW" and then says "I just use an adapter and binding posts" we know it isn't an EFHW. Terminology matters. 73 -- Lynn ______________________________________________________________ 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 k9...@live.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
