Posted by
Rick Dettinger-3 on
Dec 18, 2011; 5:44am
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/KAT500-and-a-long-wire-inverted-L-tp7104805p7105269.html
I moved my inverted "L", a 176 foot long, 55 foot high wire in the
trees, from my shack to a post with an SGC 230 tuner about 100 feet
away from the shack. The noise level on receive went down about 3 S
units. I live in a quiet, rural location, and, as a side benefit, the
antenna is no longer visible. Its located just into a wooded area and
the neighbors and XYL are happy, too. Only problem is, with a total
of 140 feet of coax, it requires more than QRP power to tune, on some
bands. The SGC 230 requires 3 watts, but the loses on an untuned line
are great enough that I can't use my K1 on 15 meters. The KX3 should
have enough power to tune on all bands.
Another possibility would be to use a remotely tuned network for each
band to get the SWR close, and do the final tuning in the shack.
73,
Rick Dettinger K7MW
> I have an inverted L myself, and have often thought of adding the
> SGC230 to
> allow me to have a feed point farther from the 'shack'.
>
>
> 73,
>
> Ron AC7AC
>
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