Re: [Elecraft] (OT) - portable radial idea?

2017-03-11 Thread Michael Babineau
more. This is easy to do with a Pomona banana jack to BNC adaptor as both the red and black terminals will each accept two banana plugs. Cheers Michael VE3WMB >From: stan levandowski mailto:sjl...@optonline.net>> >Subject: [Elecraft] (OT) - portable radial idea? >Date: March 10,

Re: [Elecraft] (OT) - portable radial idea?

2017-03-10 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
March 10, 2017 6:45 PM To: stan levandowski; Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] (OT) - portable radial idea? Stan, It can be made to work, but will be a real "bear" to adjust to resonance unless you separate the ends. If you are feeding with 300 ohm twinlead, why not

Re: [Elecraft] (OT) - portable radial idea?

2017-03-10 Thread Dr. William J. Schmidt
I have a Chinese version of a Budipole type vertical that uses exactly that... ribbon cable cut to various resonate lengths for the elevated radials. Four as I remember. Works very well and quick to deploy and stow. Dr. William J. Schmidt - K9HZ J68HZ 8P6HK ZF2HZ PJ4/K9HZ VP5/K9HZ PJ2/K9HZ

Re: [Elecraft] (OT) - portable radial idea?

2017-03-10 Thread stan levandowski
Hi Don and thanks for the suggestions. Yes, I already have a 67 foot doublet fed with window line as well as  simple wires and counterpoises in line with page 10 of the KXAT1 manual.  They work just fine.  No argument there. But I stumbled upon this "linear loaded" vertical antenna and though

Re: [Elecraft] (OT) - portable radial idea?

2017-03-10 Thread Don Wilhelm
Stan, It can be made to work, but will be a real "bear" to adjust to resonance unless you separate the ends. If you are feeding with 300 ohm twinlead, why not make a 66 foot long center fed dipole out of it. Alternately if this is for portable work, us no feedline at all - just a BNC to bi

Re: [Elecraft] (OT) - portable radial idea?

2017-03-10 Thread Don Wilhelm
Stan, It can be made to work, but will be a real "bear" to adjust to resonance unless you separate the ends. If you are feeding with 300 ohm twinlead, why not make a 66 foot long center fed dipole out of it. Alternately if this is for portable work, us no feedline at all - just a BNC to bi

[Elecraft] (OT) - portable radial idea?

2017-03-10 Thread stan levandowski
I found the plans (June 2010 Elecraft Reflector) to build a 40/30/20 meter "linear loaded" portable antenna for my KX1 (using a crappie rod, 300 ohm twinlead for the radiator, a BL2 balun, and ribbon cable radials cut to 1/4 wavelength for each of the bands (16, 25 and 33 feet). My question is