If you want to be sure you'll have a successful outing with the declining band conditions you could consider a crankIR. Its not the lightest or easiest to deploy but it could very well be the best performing portable self supporting antenna out there. Once set up its fully resonant on your band of choice and easy to change bands. I stripped mine down for 40-6m at 10lbs and fit in a charter sized suite case on a recent trip to HI9 land.
With the kx3 running 10w I rarely had to call CQ more then 3 times and was creating pileups. Its large footprint does attract a bit of attention on the beach and most folks thought I was setting up a deep sea fishing rod (its a real chick magnet lol). Theres definitely no performance compromise with this portable antenna if you can tolerate the extra weight and setup time. I also tried the random wire in a tree one afternoon there which worked surprisingly well too but had to work a lot harder for contacts. This was all SSB. Brian ve3bwp ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2017 16:25:40 -0400 From: Michael Aust <ava...@verizon.net> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] Can Anyone recommended a great QRP Antenna and Antenna Pole for KX3 Message-ID: <15b30582867-102e-8...@webprd-a105.mail.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Can Anyone recommended a great QRP Antenna for KX3 Going to Hawaii with KX3 from high rise Hotels and some Sandy Beaches that is lightweight, easy to deploy, carry on Airlines or packed into luggage. Any Portable Poles to recommend for End Fed Antenna's My MFJ-1920 pole is 3.8ft when collapsed and extends to 33 feet but when Island Hopping, 3.8ft does not qualify as a Carry On due to it's length So hit with extra baggage fee's Maybe a Fishing pole that is on sections that not as long, when collapsed would be the Answer, some 14ft to 17 feet Crappie Fishing poles only breakdown to 46inches to 48inches, about the collapsed length of my MFJ-1910 fiberglass telescopic mast Mike WB6DJI ----------------------------- ______________________________________________________________ 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
