Posted by
Sante - IK0HBN on
Jul 11, 2011; 5:56pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/KX1-and-EFHW-antenna-tp6568632p6571926.html
Hi Don,
thanks for support,
I'll try to guess how much inductance the coil of W3EDP is, so to use
a smaller toroid instead of a more invasive and bigger 2 inches coil...
Finally, all I need is (if possible) a single wire antenna for 80-20
meter range, so to not have to change wire every time I will change a
band. Even with somewhat like a tuner could do fine, but also with
something to check the SWR with KX1.
I know the little jewelty shows the SWR, but only after having tuned
a wire, so using an external tuner without SWR reading should be
quite difficult to prune a tuner not having an istantaneus reading of
what I am going to do.
Thanks for now
Ciao
Sante
At 00.08 11/07/2011, you wrote:
> Sante,
>
>The KX1 antenna tuner has limited range due to its small size, so I
>would not expect it to tune an end-fed 40 meter dipole on 80 meters.
>
>In addition, a half size end fed dipole is no longer an end fed
>dipole, it is just a piece of wire. The "half wave" part says that
>is true. A 1/4 wave wire without any other component is only half
>of a half-wave dipole no matter where it is fed.
>
>What I would suggest instead is the so-called W3EDP antenna
>connected to the KX1 with no feedline. The radiator is 89 feet
>(27.13 meters) and the counterpoise for 3.5 MHz is 17 feet (5.18m).
>
>Take a look at
http://www.zerobeat.net/g3ycc/w3edp.htm. On 80
>meters, you may need the auxiliary (external) tuning circuit, but
>once you have tuned the external circuit inside any one band, you
>can use the KX1 internal tuner as you move around in the band.
>
>73,
>Don W3FPR
>
>On 7/10/2011 5:21 PM, Sante - IK0HBN wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>there is a plenty of schematic about End Fed Half Wave antenna, but
>>all them are within the range 40-10 meter. Is there one of you who
>>was able to run it with a KX1 in the range 80-20 meter? The idea of
>>getting a wire hanged somewhere, without long radials if not a 2-3
>>meters counterpoise is very intriguing.
>>BTW with the internal tuner, should KX1 be able to match it without
>>another external tuner, just to make things simpler with few things
>>to bring along?
>>Ciao
>>Sante
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