I've done a lot of backpacking, and used a fair amount of RG-174. 12 or 13 feet of that weighs very little - about 13 grams or 1/2 oz., and would add to flexibility of antenna placement too. Thats my experience anyway.
73 Chip AE5KA On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Don Wilhelm <donw...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > Chip, > > A length of wire is much lighter than any coax, including RG-174. > Important for those backpacking. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > > On 2/12/2017 8:52 AM, Chip Stratton wrote: > >> Try about 12 feet of RG-174 between your rig and your earchi transformer. >> That will make your .05 wl counterpoise for 80m without much weight and >> without much loss on the higher frequency bands. >> >> ______________________________________________________________ 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
