I have been following this thread and thought I would add my personal experience. My wife and I moved into a new manufactured home in a retirement home in Bradenton, FL in Sept. 2018. I had no clue as how or if I was ever going to get on the air again. My Grandpa use to tell me that nothing beats a try but a failure. So what if I would put a little RF into the rain 40 ft long rain gutter on the south side of the house. In mid Nov I connected my feedline to the down spout . I feed it with a Balun designs 1171 ATU current Balun. The K3 with the KAT3 automatic tuner matched to a 1.3/1 or less on all bands 160 through 6 meters. I have made qso's on all the bands using SSB, CW, RTTY and FT8 resulting in 1300+ Q's this past year.logging 130 countries on 5 continents and 28 zones. Best DX was TO19A on Reunion at 9727 miles. I have casually played in several contests, including CQ 160 with 50 Q and RTTY RU with 100 plus.
Don't ask me how this antenna works or why, but this experiment as brought me some of the greatest satisfaction of my 65 year ham career and I did it myself and it did not cost me anything. Everything was left over from many projects of the past. 73, Paul, W4PFM ______________________________________________________________ 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