Another interesting feature of the images on that web site is this one. If
you look closely, you can see that the antenna connected to the jack on
the back of the radio has what appears to be a tuned counterpoise sticking
out at a right angle to the verticle portion of the antenna.
I wonder if that's an antenna that the low power portable HF types already
know about or if this is something relatively new that's being done for
this radio. In any case, it certainly helps to solve some of the problems
with limited space antennas for HF portable operation. Although, my
preference would still be a lightweight tuner and a wire antenna when
possible.
I guess that brings up another point. Did they say if the 817 includes an
integral tuner. That would be a real plus and since a tuner that could
handle random antennas at 5 watts could be real small, I'd think it was a
possibility. But then there are things like the LDG QRP tuner and some
considerably smaller I believe.
Oh! ... Welcome to the list everyone.
Chuck - N8DXN
