Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

David Woolley wrote: Craig D. Smith wrote: Most everyone I know (including me) who uses the BuddiPole as a vertical uses a single quarter wave elevated radial or counterpoise wire. This costs That could equally be viewed as being a quarter wave, horizontal antenna with a vertical counterp

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

Craig D. Smith wrote: Most everyone I know (including me) who uses the BuddiPole as a vertical uses a single quarter wave elevated radial or counterpoise wire. This costs That could equally be viewed as being a quarter wave, horizontal antenna with a vertical counterpoise. In free space, th

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

Mike Morrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:12 PM One can make contacts with even the poorest of antennas, and not realize how poor the performance is. Side-by-side tests out in the boonies is the real test of relative performance. Nothing beats that! -

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

Without wanting to get into a religious war on the subject of dipoles vs vertical antennas, I just want to state that I have very successfully used a quarter wave vertical on 20 metres while camping. The radiating element was made from about 1.5 inch O.D. aluminium telescoping tube adjusted to

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

John Harper wrote: I will re-think my radial configuration. It is more of a pita to carry, untangle, deploy and repack 16 of anything and I may decide to stick with 4 even at the price of some efficiency. I will have height above average terrain on my side though. Here is the camping area I hav

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

ursday, April 17, 2008 4:36 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1 Vic K2VCO wrote: (somewhere there is a table of the optimum number/size of radials for a given length of wire). If the radials are on the ground, a large number of short ones is better than a few long ones. Here it is: <

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

Vic K2VCO wrote: (somewhere there is a table of the optimum number/size of radials for a given length of wire). If the radials are on the ground, a large number of short ones is better than a few long ones. Here it is: They recommend fewer rad

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

John Harper wrote: My main antenna will be an 80m dipole fed with 450-ohm ladder line (for use on 20 & 40m with tuner) that I want to compare with a camera tripod-mounted hamstick on 20 and 40 meters. I already have an idea how they will compare - the only reason for the test is that I have a

[Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

Mike / KK5F: I often erect at least two antenna types at a site for side-by-side comparisons. That is the *only* way one can determine how one antenna performs against another under otherwise identical site and I'll be doing that myself next Saturday during QRPTTF. My main antenna will be an

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

Craig wrote: >I will respectfully disagree. You have made one major assumption >that is almost never true - namely that the BuddiPole vertical is >used without an adequate ground system. > >Most everyone I know (including me) who uses the BuddiPole as a >vertical uses a single quarter wave elevat

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

( best on 40/80/160m any day) chris g0wfh - Original Message - From: "Mike Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:13 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1 Tom wrote: Since you are going to be a newly minted ham, I would not recommend a

RE: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

<> I would go so far as to state without fear of <> informed contradiction that a dipole will grossly grossly outperform <> any portable HF vertical, which almost never has an adequate grounding <> system. The difference on receive or transmit is more often than not <> about five S-units, equivale

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

Tom wrote: >Since you are going to be a newly minted ham, I would not recommend >a Buddipole right now. I would take the suggestion of the others and >build a 44 or 66 foot doublet and feed it with twin lead or build a >resonant dipole. Any of these simple antennas will out perform a >Buddipole.

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

Hi Tom, The Buddipole is a great product with Elecraft-like support. I have both the Buddipole and the KX-1 and as a portable system, it works fine. Since you are going to be a newly minted ham, I would not recommend a Buddipole right now. I would take the suggestion of the others and build a 44

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

From: "Romanchik Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mailing List Elecraft" Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 11:19 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1 I have a KX-1 and a BuddiStick, although I haven't used them together yet. If you have the bulit-in antenna tuner, then

Re: [Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

I have a KX-1 and a BuddiStick, although I haven't used them together yet. If you have the bulit-in antenna tuner, then there's no need to spend all that money on a BuddiStick. I have had success with the 28- ft. wire with four radials as described in the tuner manual. Last time I went porta

[Elecraft] Buddipoles and KX1

Does anyone have experience with the Buddipole system? I just ordered a KX1 with all the bells and whistles and I'm thinking about adding the Buddipole to the order. Any suggestions for alternative, portable antenna systems? Thanks, Tom (no call sign yet, taking the tests in May) ___