Good Day Everyone,
I was noodling around some KX1 topics on Nabble and found this posting by W2XS from 7/08: "For 40, 30, and 20 meters, I use a 42-foot wire with a large nut on the end. The wire is thrown over a tree branch. A Pomona BNC-to-Bindng Posts adaptor is used. Three counterpoise wires cut to one quarter wave for each band (approx. 33', 23', and 16.5') are connected to the ground binding post." My question is whether *all three* counterpoises are attached to the binding post *at once*, or is he talking about changing the out the counterpoise as he changes bands? I've been using a one-size-fits-all counterpoise and was wondering if I've missed something basic and very useful. Thx es 73 John KK4BOB -- John Flynn Tallahassee, Florida USA ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
You can connect all at once. The ones for the band you are on will be resonant where the others will not.
Tim Herrick, KQ8M Charter Member North Coast Contesters [hidden email] AR-Cluster V6 kq8m.no-ip.org User Ports: 23, 7373 with local skimmer, 7374 without local skimmer Server Ports: V6 3607, V4 Active 3605, V4 Passive 3606 -----Original Message----- From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of John Flynn Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 4:11 PM To: [hidden email] Subject: [Elecraft] KX1 ant. and cntpse. ques. Good Day Everyone, I was noodling around some KX1 topics on Nabble and found this posting by W2XS from 7/08: "For 40, 30, and 20 meters, I use a 42-foot wire with a large nut on the end. The wire is thrown over a tree branch. A Pomona BNC-to-Bindng Posts adaptor is used. Three counterpoise wires cut to one quarter wave for each band (approx. 33', 23', and 16.5') are connected to the ground binding post." My question is whether *all three* counterpoises are attached to the binding post *at once*, or is he talking about changing the out the counterpoise as he changes bands? I've been using a one-size-fits-all counterpoise and was wondering if I've missed something basic and very useful. Thx es 73 John KK4BOB -- John Flynn Tallahassee, Florida USA ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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