Colorado Trail - Segment 6B
On this segment of the trail I took my k1 and the 83' long wire (W3EDP antenna). The antenna worked great. I hadn't used it for a year or more but I just threw the sandwich bag with the wires into my pack and crossed my fingers. I carry the 83' wire, a 16' counterpoise and a 33' counterpoise. All I do is toss the 83' wire up into a tree. I can have it zigzagged up and down and all over the place and the k1 antenna tuner loads it very nicely. It DOES seem to work better if I try to get the wire that is closest to the rig up in the air the highest. So... I find a tree close to the rig and throw the wire up over a branch in that tree. Then continue to run the wire around in tree branches nearby. If I just throw the wire up in a tree 80 ft away from the rig, the end of the wire is up high but its closer to the ground near the rig and I don't think that works as well. It seems like I can tune 3 of the K1's four bands (15/20/30/40) with either of the counterpoise wires but I can't get all 4 with either one. So... I take both and I can easily load all 4 bands. I was really happy with performance... I didn't work a lot of contacts but they were all nice solid QSO's.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All times logged in Mountain Daylignt Time (approximate) NØSXX Log July 10 BAND TIME CALL MYRST HISRST NAME QTH 30 21:15 WB0CFF 559 589 Carl Belle Plaine, MN Short qso.. qsb July 11 BAND TIME CALL MYRST HISRST NAME QTH 20 19:30 N8NM 339 569 Steve Nr Detroit, MI HB rig @2 watts & g5rv @ 30ft, 73 deg 20 19:45 N5IB 449 569 Jim Baton Rouge, LA K2 running 10W to horizontal loop 30 20:35 AA9AA 579 589 Mike Manitoube, WI 38 special @5W, exchanged lots of info 40 21:00 W7GFN 579 579 Chuck Lookout, CA ts440s @100W and carolina windowm