Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Field antenna tip

2016-07-26 Thread Wayne Burdick
Like this, but just the "hot" wire (the one up in the air). The counterpoise wire was used as-is, with no ad-hoc inductance in series. Wayne On Jul 26, 2016, at 7:38 PM, shawn Bado wrote: > wrapped around only as a form or left on there? > > something like this?? > (imagine there is a counte

Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Field antenna tip

2016-07-26 Thread Wayne Burdick
Hot, though it wouldn't matter. I was just using the post as a coil form. Wayne On Jul 26, 2016, at 10:24 AM, Rick Tavan rta...@gmail.com [KX3] wrote: > > Was this on the hot side or the counterpoise? > > /Rick > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com [KX3] >

Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Field antenna tip

2016-07-26 Thread Peter Pauly
I'm starting to think Wayne is the MacGyver of the ham radio world. On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Rick Tavan wrote: > Was this on the hot side or the counterpoise? > > /Rick > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com [KX3] < > kx3-nore...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > >

Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Field antenna tip

2016-07-26 Thread Rick Tavan
Was this on the hot side or the counterpoise? /Rick On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 12:45 PM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com [KX3] < kx3-nore...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > This weekend I was using the KX2 with a random length of wire tossed in a > tree and another random length laid on t

Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Field antenna tip

2016-07-25 Thread Wayne Burdick
On Jul 25, 2016, at 1:17 PM, Charles Cupp wrote: > Which binding post Wayne?does it make any difference? No. It's entirely ad-hoc/empirical. I wound up maybe 15-20 turns. Definitely not critical, but not guaranteed, either :) Wayne N6KR > Charly XF1/W6CUP - on the air in Cabo San Lucas >