Mike, All,
I am with Fred on this call - particularly from a hi-rise hotel balcony at a
resort. My best results have been with an Alex Walkham Magloop (has a nice
small carry on bag that also fits in my suitcase) closely followed by the
Superantenna MP-1 which fits in an old Targus laptop bag. I think some hotel
management groups take poorly to 'fishing' off the 17th floor balcony of their
prime ocean view tower. Last time I did that was the last time I'll ever try
using an End Fed Vertical Wire hung from a fishing rod (it was a surfcaster)...
even after dark.
If I hadn't been a top tier frequent stay guest with the company, it might have
gotten ugly. Some guest below reported me for dropping a camera to look into
rooms... It was just a small weighted ball on the end of the wire. The manager
was polite, but asked me not to do it. I was using the FT - 817 at the time so
I luckily wound up only restricted to UHF/VHF ops and suffered a temporary
reddened face. Glad it was a short stay.
Never had the problem with the other two antenna configurations.
Jack KD4IZ
Sent from my iPad
> On Apr 2, 2017, at 20:08, Fred Jensen <k6...@foothill.net> wrote:
>
> ICYDK,
>
> Crappie [n. KRAA-pee] A genus, pomoxis, of North American freshwater fish in
> the sunfish family Centrarchidae.
>
> Crappy [adj. KRAA-pee] 1. Of or denoting very inferior construction. 2.
> Denoting any bad condition, object, utterance, or occurrence.
>
> "Pole" is the operative word here, fish make very poor antennas and they
> don't last very long, just as crappy crappie poles don't last long either.
> [:-)
>
> I'm still a mag loop fan after trying all the rest.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred ("Skip") K6DGW
> Sparks NV USA
> Washoe County DM09dn
>
>
>
>
>
>> On 4/2/2017 1:54 PM, Scott McDonald via Elecraft wrote:
>> Hey Mike.
>>
>> For a trip to ZF last month, I took several old Walmart crappie pole pieces
>> and built a 22 foot mast by judiciously selecting and cutting pieces no
>> longer than 28 inches so that the sections would stack and the disassembled
>> antenna would fit diagonally in my suitcase.
>
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