Here is what happened when I worked with a hunk of wire recently. I have a 160 meter Inverted-L antenna that is a little longer that 130 foot....around 135 feet. I have a feed point at the base of the tower which is about 10 feet from the tuner. My tower is right near the shack. See http://home.swbell.net/k0wa. Under the inverted-L are 18 random length radials in the yard...or about 500 feet of #14 stranded insulated wire from Lowes. The radials or counterpoise comes to a stainless steel ring that it tapped for bolts and all radials are tied to that. The I have a SO-239 mounted on a steel stake that is connected to the very bottom of the verticle part of the Inverted-L. The ground is a very large copper allegator clamp (think battery binding post) that clamps around the PL-259 shell and then is connected to the stainless steel ring. The Inverted-L is good at about 1880 khz. Not perfect...but, who's antennas are? Using the hunk of wire as a "longwire" the KAT100 was able to tune it on 80, 40, 30 and 20 without a problem. I did not write down the L and C as indicated on the K2. I even worked some people on those bands to see if it was radiating. It was. It works quite well on 160 as well. RF is the shack was not detected. If the wire (antenna itself) came int othe shack and tied to the KAT100...I think that would be an issue. That is what I have found when using the KAT100 with with the a "longwire." Notice the word is in "" because there are different ideas as who what really constitutes a "longwire." 73 Lee - K0WA
Common sense is in short supply - get some and use it - Lee Buller _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
