Paul,
Since you find antennas confusing at this point, you may want to look at
the Antenna article on my website http://w3fpr.qrpradio.com. It tells
about antenna concepts in layman's language as much as possible, and no
math.
Second comment is that you may want a wire antenna instead of the
Buddypole for your home station. A half wave dipole at the lowest
frequency of interest fed with ladder line will receive and radiate much
better than the Buddypole in most situations. One cannot defeat the
laws of physics. An antenna shorter than 1/2 wavelength (1/4 wavelength
for verticals with a good ground system) will be inefficient by
comparison - don't be fooled by the advertising hype - a full size G5RV
antenna is just not as efficient on 80 meters as a 135 foot dipole.
The Buddypole *is* a very nice convenient antenna for portable work and
likely more efficient than most portable antennas, but for the home
station, you can likely do better with just wire.
The KAT3 with a 1:1 balun or 4:1 balun will provide all the tuning range
normally needed to tune a wire antenna with ladder line, you should not
need a separate tuner - and the KAT3 will remember its settings for each
band for you - no knob twisting when changing bands.
73,
Don W3FPR
Paul Maruna wrote:
I bought a buddipole antenna system and I want to get one of the subject units
but I don't know the difference between them, and what each one does, and which
one will help me with the setup with my K3 and my antenna system ?
When I bought my K3 I also bought a KAT3 which I believe is an antenna tuner
for the K3 -- Will this do the same thing to match the antenna to the K3, or am
I better off getting another unit like a LDG Z-100 or an LDG AT-200 Pro or
something else like one of the MFJ units ?
Where does the "baluns" come into this play with either unit ?
I am just a Technician class and am studying for the General class and I have
not built the K3 that I have yet, and all this antenna stuff is pretty
confusing.
Can anyone help please ?
Thank you,
Paul
(73)
KD8HWP
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