I use an 84 to 86 feet (W3EDP length) of #26 AWG Wire on a plastic camping clothesline reel and it matches quite easily with the KAT2 (K2 internal tuner) or the Elecraft T1. This will match (and work reasonably well) from 80m through 10m as it is not close to a multiple of a half wave on any of the ham bands so it presents a reasonable impedance that can be matched by an autotuner.
I use 5 X 16 foot radials on the ground as a minimum or Google “W3EDP" if you prefer to use an elevated “counterpoise”. Cheers Michael VE3WMB >From: Wayne Burdick <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Random wire lengths for antennas >Date: January 29, 2017 at 12:01:14 AM GMT-5 >To: "Emory Schley" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >Cc: Elecraft <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >Generally something in excess of 50' for both wires will provide adequate on >80 meters and up. >Wayne >N6KR ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
