Ki and MP-1 antenna

[Yves Dussault]

Hi friends!
Any of you using the K1 with an MP-1 antenna?
I do not hear much with this antenna!
Sometimes just nothing!!!!
What do you use as a portable antenna with the K1?

Yves Dussault-VE2ATD
Laval, QC, Canada

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[Larry Makoski W2LJ]

Yves Dussault wrote:

> Hi friends!
>
> What do you use as a portable antenna with the K1?


Yves,

I use either a homebrewed Buddipole:
http://www.qsl.net/w3ff

or a homebrews PAC-12
http://www.njqrp.org/pac-12/index.html

I like both.

73 de Larry W2LJ


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[Christopher Kovacs-2]

Hi Yves,

 How about a Pac-12 Portable antenna. I use a Pac-12 that I made
myself.  It's a good portable antenna and easy to construct.  Here is a  
web pointer:

http://www.njqrp.org/pac-12/

I've worked quite a number of stations on 40, 30, and 20. (QRP levels.)  
Also, take a look at:

http://www.qsl.net/hfpack/antennas/shootout2001.html#vertical

I am also considering making a longer telescoping upper section with a
little more overall length.

73,

Chris

Yves Dussault wrote:

> Hi friends!
> Any of you using the K1 with an MP-1 antenna?
> I do not hear much with this antenna!
> Sometimes just nothing!!!!
> What do you use as a portable antenna with the K1?
>
> Yves Dussault-VE2ATD
> Laval, QC, Canada
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[Bob Nielsen]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 04:05:27PM -0400, Yves Dussault wrote:
> Hi friends!
> Any of you using the K1 with an MP-1 antenna?
> I do not hear much with this antenna!
> Sometimes just nothing!!!!
> What do you use as a portable antenna with the K1?
>

I used an MP-1 with my K2 in the WPX contest from a hotel room in
Tourcoing, France (MP-1 inside the room next to the window).  I was able
to make many contacts as far away as Tunisia and UAE.  Tuning the coil
of the antenna can make quite a difference (I use the Tenna-Dipper from
<http://www.4sqrp.com>.

Bob, N7XY


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[Mike Morrow-3]

Yves wrote:

>What do you use as a portable antenna with the K1?


I *always* use a simple, cheap, resonant, wire dipole.  More than 30 years
of playing with portable antennas, often in side by side comparisons with
vertical antennas, has shown me that even high-dollar verticals without very
good ground planes (the usual case in temporary installations) provide
grossly poor performance in comparison to a $5 dipole, even when that dipole
is tuned for 40m and less than ten feet above ground.

I think that the reported success of short loading-coil vertical antennas
with jury-rigged ground systems simply shows that contacts can often be made
even with the worst of antenna designs.

73,
Mike / KK5F

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[Treat Hull]

Yves

I completed my K-1 earlier this spring. If you're getting very little, I
would be inclined to suspect the radio (or even the antenna plug) rather
than the antenna. I can put 15 feet of hookup wire up a tree in Toronto and
get "acceptable" reception ;-}. If you can't pick up signals with a piece of
wire over a tree, take a look at the radio.

In my case, I had great reception right from the start on the lower bands,
but nothing on 20M and 15M. Turned out to be a construction error on my
part.

Treat Hull
VA3IMO
Toronto, Canada


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Subject: [Elecraft] Ki and MP-1 antenna

Hi friends!
Any of you using the K1 with an MP-1 antenna?
I do not hear much with this antenna!
Sometimes just nothing!!!!
What do you use as a portable antenna with the K1?

Yves Dussault-VE2ATD
Laval, QC, Canada

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