Re: KX3 dimensions?
Posted by
wayne burdick on
Oct 21, 2011; 6:02pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/KX3-dimensions-tp6914891p6917869.html
Peter Wollan wrote:
> The penultimate whip: the two or three thinnest sections of a 16'
> crappie pole ($10 from Cabella's). It fails the invisibility
> criterion, but otherwise seems to fit.
>
> What do you do with it then? drag a wire behind as a counterpoise?
Yes. This is SOP for HFpack. RG174 makes a good counterpoise, although
I've had good luck with that same #26 wire, too.
I've had no trouble making 2000-mile-plus CW contacts on 20 m running
2 W into a 4' Mizuho loaded whip, dragging a 13' counterpoise.
Wayne
N6KR
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