A resonant vertical is a good portable antenna if you have a decent ground
system. It is certainly much better than the popular 43 foot vertical.
However it will not typically perform the way yours did on the beach where
the pseudo-brewster angle radiation is filled out.
John KK9A
From: VE3BWP
Tue Apr 4 10:58:40 EDT 201
Its not the lightest or easiest to deploy but it could very well be the
best performing portable self supporting antenna out there. Once set up
its fully resonant on your band of choice and easy to change bands. I
stripped mine down for 40-6m at 10lbs and fit in a charter sized suite
case on a recent trip to HI9 land.
With the kx3 running 10w I rarely had to call CQ more then 3 times and was
creating pileups. Its large footprint does attract a bit of attention on
the beach and most folks thought I was setting up a deep sea fishing rod
(its a real chick magnet lol). Theres definitely no performance
compromise with this portable antenna if you can tolerate the extra weight
and setup time.
I also tried the random wire in a tree one afternoon there which worked
surprisingly well too but had to work a lot harder for contacts. This was
all SSB.
Brian ve3bwp
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