KX2 Portable Ant

[Robert Reiman]

 What portable or walk about Antenna could I use with my KX2? 72's  Bob [hidden email]
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[Phil Wheeler-2]

For walking one of the MFJ whips seems a
reasonable choice. Wayne did some posts on that a
month or two ago.

Phil W7OX

On 7/11/16 6:37 AM, Robert Reiman wrote:
>   What portable or walk about Antenna could I use with my KX2? 72's  Bob [hidden email]

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[Raymond Sills]

The MFJ-18XX series is probably what that was.  XX is replaced by your band of choice.  The whips are base loaded, and only work on one band.

73 de Ray
K2ULR
KX3 #211

> On Jul 11, 2016, at 3:14 PM, Phil Wheeler <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> For walking one of the MFJ whips seems a reasonable choice. Wayne did some posts on that a month or two ago.
>
> Phil W7OX
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> On 7/11/16 6:37 AM, Robert Reiman wrote:
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[Ed Muns]

You'll also want a counterpoise wire connected to a mini-banana plug
inserted into the corner hole on the KX2.  It can drag on the ground as you
want and if it gets snagged or stepped on, it simply disconnects easily from
the KX2.

Ed W0YK
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Ray K2ULR wrote:

The MFJ-18XX series is probably what that was.  XX is replaced by your band
of choice.  The whips are base loaded, and only work on one band.


> On Jul 11, 2016, at 3:14 PM, Phil Wheeler <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> For walking one of the MFJ whips seems a reasonable choice. Wayne did some
posts on that a month or two ago.

> On 7/11/16 6:37 AM, Robert Reiman wrote:
>>  What portable or walk about Antenna could I use with my KX2? 72's  Bob
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[Bob Nielsen-4]

Has anyone compared the MFJ-1899T (multiband with tapped coil) to the
single band antennas?  I realize that none of these will compare with a
good fixed antenna but are they all equally bad?

Bob, N7XY
KX2 #385

On 7/11/16 12:21 PM, Ray Sills wrote:

> The MFJ-18XX series is probably what that was.  XX is replaced by your band of choice.  The whips are base loaded, and only work on one band.
>
> 73 de Ray
> K2ULR
> KX3 #211
>
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>> On Jul 11, 2016, at 3:14 PM, Phil Wheeler <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> For walking one of the MFJ whips seems a reasonable choice. Wayne did some posts on that a month or two ago.
>>
>> Phil W7OX
>>
>> On 7/11/16 6:37 AM, Robert Reiman wrote:
>>>   What portable or walk about Antenna could I use with my KX2? 72's  Bob [hidden email]
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[K9MA]

I've recently been using an 11 meter fishing pole to hold up a 21 meter
wire, and it works quite well on 20 and 40.  (It should also work on 10
and 15, and a shorter wire on 30.)  I can get the antenna up in about 10
minutes almost anywhere there's enough room.  Obviously, the pole could
hold various lengths of wire in all sorts of configurations, like a half
wave vertical or inverted L.  Just about anything more than 11 meters
long ought to work better than a short loaded vertical.

The internal tuner won't load a half wave multiple like this wire, so I
built a small tuner. The internal tuner would probably match a quarter
wave (3/4 wave, etc.) with radials on the ground, but that kind of
antenna might not be as effective.

The pole is:

http://www.allfishingbuy.com/Fishing-Pole/Pole-A2-83-2-12017.htm

It weighs just 600 g.  (This outfit has others
longer/shorter/heavier/cheaper.)

I'd be glad to share the tuner design.

73,

Scott  K9MA

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