>From: Geoffrey Mackenzie-Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sun Jun 11 14:23:52 CDT 2006 >To: Elecraft Discussion List <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> >Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: Portable Antenna for K2
OK on the bamboo, well that is interesting, I actually used 2 cardboard tubes from some Christmas wrapping paper, thats the secret, Hi ! The antenna cost me a wopping $20.00 when I was done. Just talked over to G4 and LZ last evening along with a WA6 from the east coast. I cant asked for any better considering the cost and my location. Cheers Bill KA3IXF >Bill KA3IXF wrote on Sunday, June 11, 2006 2:00 PM > >>Not sure if you can apply this to your application, but I designed the >>KA3IXF Apartment Antenna, which will be appearing in a upcoming QST Article >>within the next couple of months. The >folks at MFJ and B/W are also >>looking at it for possible commercial retail application. It is no more >>than one or two long cardboard tubes wrapped up in electrical tape. You >>then make or buy a >limited space 10 - 40m G5RV and place the feedline in >>the middle of the tube and then wrap the ends around the tube, leaving >>about a inch or so between each turn. It looks sort of like a slinky >> >antenna. Then you again wrap the whole thing in electrical tape. I have it >>sitting outside my apartment on the window sill. With my K2/100, I work DX >>on a regular basis, on 20m CW. If you >can get up to the top floor and >>place this on a window sill this works well with the K2. >> >> Good Luck, >> Bill KA3IXF > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Hi Bill, > >When camping or during Field Day it should be possible to use two of your >gizmos to make a short boom yagi or phased array. My first 40m beam in VE2 >land had 22ft lengths of bamboo on which the normal mode helices were >wound - worked like a charm once tuned. > >Good luck with the commercial folk. > >73, >Geoff >GM4ESD > > > >_______________________________________________ >Elecraft mailing list >Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >You must be a subscriber to post to the list. >Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > >Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm >Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
