+++++++++++++++++ Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:55:02 -0500 From: Ken Newman Subject: Re: [Elecraft] An antenna question for the group Jobst, Your location looks like a possibility for a 2 element wire beam. The one I would like to try myself is the article in the QST Nov 2001 page 36 called "A Portable 2-Element Triband Yagi" by VE7CA. If you only want 20 meters you could leave out the wires for 15 and 10. Try it and let us know how it works out! Has anyone else used it yourself? 72 de Ken N2CQ at ARRL.NET At 04:21 PM 11/20/01 -0800, you wrote: >My first step in improving operating performance of my K2 is to put up >a better antenna. > >My plan is to operate only 20 meters but a tower with a Yagi is not in >the cards. However, I have several tall trees in the back yard to act as >sky hooks. > >The question - has anyone tried the vertical dipole parasitic array >described by L. B. Cebik, W4RNL [ http://www.cebik.com/triv.html ]?? > >I've read the above web page and run several models - it almost seems >too good to be true - 3 wires, a few relays, and the result is a 3 db gain >(over a vertical dipole) and a 15 db front to back ratio. Has anyone in the >group built this - if so what were the results. +++++++++++++++