My version using the same matchbox is 44 feet long and tunes well 40 - 6 meters and a piece of cake for the KX3. It is loud on 30m
Ariel NY4G Sent from my iPhone On Oct 8, 2013, at 9:40 PM, "Esquer Dave" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Newbie HF Dave here again with an end fed antenna design question. > > I have an EARCH (Emergency Amateur Radio Club, Hawaii) end fed 6-40 meter > multiband HF antenna. Part of the design is the 9:1 UNUN (unbalanced to > unbalanced) toroid matching transformer. I have replaced the 30' wire with > 66.5 feet of 18AWG Wireman silky 532. My end fed is in a horizontal (slight > slope) orientation, east-west. The antenna is about 50' above the ground (I > have a 3 story house and pine trees close by). > > I do not have an external antenna analyzer, yet. > > Using the ATU in my KX-3, I have the UNTUNED SRW values below. With the KX-3 > ATU, the KX-3 DOES tune all of these bands with no problem. > > Question: Should I do anything to improve QRP performance, shorten/lengthen > the wire, or should I just go with the flow, hang loose and not worry and > just enjoy my rig? > > REMEMBER, newbie Dave, be gentle. I've been tracking the long wire > discussions on the list, there is lots of fervor. > > [My key = frequency/SWR] > > 80m > 3.50/2.0 > 3.752.9 > 4.0/3.7 > > 40m > 7.0/6.9 > 7.15/6.9 > 7.3/6.9 > > 20m > 14.070/2.9 > 14.2/2.8 > 14.35/2.7 > > 15m > 21.0/2.8 > 21.45/3.0 > > 10m > 28.0/2.2 > 29.0/1.8 > 29.7/2.5 > > 6m > 50.0/3.0 > 52.0/2.3 > 54.0/3.7 > > Thanks in advance, > Dave > > More static, more of the time … > > Dave Esquer, K6WDE > [email protected] > http://www.daveesquer.com > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
