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Edward Seeliger

KX3 Cruiseship Antenna (Rx)

Does anyone have experience or suggestions for an antenna to use with a KX3 on a cruise ship for receiving?
Thanks for your time and help.
Edd - KD5M
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Carl-N8VZ

Re: KX3 Cruiseship Antenna (Rx)

I have a recommendation of what NOT to use. I once used a SuperAntenna, and the salt water when it evaporated left salt deposits that completely clogged the center section with the moveable coil. It took a long time by running freshwater over it to free things up, and it never was completely normal again. The antenna was not inside the cabin but out on the deck of our stateroom. 73 de Carl N8VZ

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> On Sep 20, 2017, at 7:49 PM, Edward Seeliger <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Does anyone have experience or suggestions for an antenna to use with a KX3 on a cruise ship for receiving?
> Thanks for your time and help.
> Edd - KD5M
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Doug Turnbull

Re: KX3/KX2 Cruiseship Operation

Dear OMs and YLs,
This talk of cruise ship operation piqued my interest. Do you have
to get permission from the ships captain to operate? I believe this is in
the license manual. How does one go about doing so? If I could bring
my AlexLoop and KX2 aboard a cruise ship this would give a great new reason
to talk to the good XYL about a Mediterranean cruise. I just wonder how
one gets the okay on a big cruise ship with thousands of passengers. I
would be hesitant to even take a KX2 on board a large ship without prior
permission.

Surely one does not need to leave the antenna out on the deck area
when not in use. The AlexLoop is so discrete that from your own balcony
it should be possible though you would have to keep the antenna clear of all
the metal surroundings so this might well be problematic.

73 Doug EI2CN

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k6dgw

Re: KX3/KX2 Cruiseship Operation

2005, Ft. Lauderdale-->6Y-->P4-->HP-->TI-->XE [x3]-->Los Angeles.
Bought the KX1 to take on the trip 15 day trip.

I wrote to Princess Lines with the radio specs and photos. Answer by
telephone was "Absolutely not! It might interfere with operation of the
ship and you could start a fire." On the principle that "the Captain
runs the ship," I took the rig, contacted the Purser's office after we
were aboard, and a very young junior officer came and looked at my
radio. Once he knew the power and frequencies, he said, "You have
permission to operate your amateur radio set but not in public spaces,
and do not remove any paint," and wrote this in my log.

This confined me to the "balcony" outside our stateroom, which would
more properly be called a "shelf," maybe 4 m x 1.3 m or so. I had chosen
to take my 8 m wire+counterpoise made by peeling the braid back on RG-58
since the MP-1 knockoff I have looks suspiciously like a pipe bomb on
the x-ray. Stringing 8 meters of wire in a 2 meter square hole in 3 cm
thick steel proved to be a challenge. Doing so in a configuration that
would actually radiate was an order of magnitude harder. It did work, I
managed about a dozen Q's with So. Americans [the ship was between me
and NA all the way]. I've never taken a radio on a cruise again.

I used a 4S1P LiFePO4 battery with no way to charge it, but I didn't
come close to depleting it. 15 days on the Big White Boat was about 5
days too many. The Canal was great. YMMV

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 9/21/2017 12:29 PM, Doug Turnbull wrote:

> Dear OMs and YLs,
> This talk of cruise ship operation piqued my interest. Do you have
> to get permission from the ships captain to operate? I believe this is in
> the license manual. How does one go about doing so? If I could bring
> my AlexLoop and KX2 aboard a cruise ship this would give a great new reason
> to talk to the good XYL about a Mediterranean cruise. I just wonder how
> one gets the okay on a big cruise ship with thousands of passengers. I
> would be hesitant to even take a KX2 on board a large ship without prior
> permission.
>
> Surely one does not need to leave the antenna out on the deck area
> when not in use. The AlexLoop is so discrete that from your own balcony
> it should be possible though you would have to keep the antenna clear of all
> the metal surroundings so this might well be problematic.
>
> 73 Doug EI2CN
>
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