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To: mjohnson at pmt.org, paul_closius at sil.org, bill_foust at sil.org,
        Matt_Peifer at sil.org, jim-elaine_chepey at sil.org,
        trevallion at truthmail.com
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:31:26 -0500
From: Daniel L Brinneman <daniel-k2 at juno.com>
Subject: [Elecraft] K2 et PM (Pedestrian Mobile)

Hi,

I settled down here and built myself a PAC-12.  It does FB (Fine
Business).  Has the same dB gain as the Super Antennas' MP-1 according to
the chart results from HF-PACK's antenna shootout.

www.superantennas.com - MP-1/MP-2

Super Antennas MP-1 costs $150, this PAC-12 by KA5DVS costs ~$9 - $15.

I will be PM (Pedestrian Mobile) on Tuesdays and Thursdays; in the
mornings before 8am and afternoons after 5pm; as soon as I get my
Elecraft K2 PA transistors.

I seem to use just 40m and 20m for operating HF.  I will be using SSB
(phone), since my expertise are not up on CW (morse code).

I will be adding a page to my website on my version of the PAC-12, with
pictures of course.  See a page already up at: www.njqrp.org/pac-12/
This is KA5DVS' page.

Daniel Brinneman
kg4dni
www.kg4dni.com - Webmaster

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To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Cc: paul_closius at sil.org, Matt_Peifer at sil.org,
        wa4moe at carolina.rr.com, mjohnson at pmt.org
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:52:13 -0500
From: Daniel L Brinneman <daniel-k2 at juno.com>
Subject: [Elecraft] K2 et PM (Pedestrian Mobile)--just a note

Hi folks,

I compared the RX of my PAC-12 by KA5DVS to my friend's van mobile
SGC-239 tuner and whip.  Using his Vectronics antenna analyzer first, we
found that the antenna had a low SWR at CW; whip fully extended; on the
40m band with a ground dragging wire of 10ft.  When we measured with the
same band at SSB the SWR went high, until I removed the ground plane
wire, then it (SWR) went to 1:1 ratio.

The designer suggested that I use 'mobile.exe from an ARRL handbook to
get the Total # of turns for 80m and 160m.
80m is approximately 200 turns and 160m is approximately 700 turns.

-- snip --

Sincerely,
Daniel
kg4dni
www.kg4dni.com - Webmaster