Hello and Aloha!
The recent info on the 14AVQ reminded me
about my 20 year old model. I wanted to clean
it up and if the traps were no longer any good,
I was planning to replace them with coax tuned
traps. Well, the original traps were OK. After
cleaning up the antenna and slightly retuning
for the CW ends of 40-20-15-10m, I've
deployed the antenna on many beach and
mountain camping trips.
One antenna configuration using the 14AVQ
included a tuned counterpoise at about 8 ft of
the ground. The 14AVQ was clamped to the
top of 8 or 9 ft pole held in position with
small dacron rope. The tuned c'poise was an
80 thru 10m dipole with one set of traps at
7050 kHz. This dipole was suspended at about
8 ft with its center at the base of the 14AVQ.
When using the vertical, the multiband dipole
elements are tied to coax-shield ground. Then
when I want only the horizontal antenna, I
switch the coax to the center of the multiband
dipole elements. I QRP DX with the 14AVQ/
multiband c'poise and check into Hawaii state
nets on 80-40m with the multiband dipole.
I learned from my camping trips here in Hawaii,
it pays to have two antennas. Sometimes one
works better than the other. Propagation and
Grayline factors considered.
73 and Aloha, Dean Manley KH6B
ARRL Life Member, HI Chapter QCWA,
ARCI 6257, QRP-L 1032, HI-QRP 1, NorCal ????,
BK29KP Hilo, Hawaii
kh6b@juno.com
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