Something else that worked real well with my KX2 at a hotel in Branson, MO a couple years ago (OzarkCon QRP convention) was the hotel’s rain gutter. I ran a short wire out my ground floor room window to a screw holding a bottom section on. KX2’s tuner clicked a couple times, 1:1 SWR and I was able to work all over the US on 40 and 80 meters in the evenings. Beat having to try getting a vertical up exposed in the parking lot and probably worked much better anyway.
Jim, W0EB Sent from my iPad > On Jul 2, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Fred Jensen <k6...@foothill.net> wrote: > > Can't report on snow, seasoned or otherwise, but never underestimate the > usefulness of a barbed wire fence. I took my K2 to our Cal QSO Party > expedition in Alpine County one year and use an old, falling down fence > behind our camp connected directly to the BNC antenna connector through a > short length of RG-58 and the ATU didn't even run more than a second or so. > Made a number of CW Q's from 8,550 ft. We also used that fence as the > counterpoise for a 160 Inv-L a couple of times. > > 73, > Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW > Sparks NV DM09dn > Washoe County > >> On 7/2/2020 6:36 AM, Jan Timmers wrote: >> Regards; >> John Timmers >> >> Hehe - lightly salted snow. Nice one >> >> 73.5 de VE7JBT :-) >> >> >>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 6:36 PM Wayne Burdick <n...@elecraft.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>> - the KX2, like the KX3, has a built-in wide range ATU that will match >>> anything from barbed wire fences to lightly salted snow. >>> >>> Disclaimer: IMHO. YMMV. >>> >>> 73.5, >>> Wayne >>> N6KR >>> > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 w...@cox.net ______________________________________________________________ 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
