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From: W5OMR/Geoff
To each their own, I guess, but I personally prefer to monitor the envelope from a remote 'sense' antenna, that's fed into the front end of the o'scope. My sense antenna for my delta loop, is a 40m dipole. works great.
For 160, 75 and 40m, you'd need only a 20MHz scope.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found that the remote Ant method showed the actual radiated rf better than
the internal link.
It suprised me that the my actual received signal showed slightly more output
with a less than minimal SWR tuning. Tried all combinations of VKII final
tuning and tuner manipulation (TenTec 1KW) but no matter what it showed a
little more radiated output indicated by the external wire than proper tuning
ended up with. Tuned up into a 50 OHM cantenna with low power and then went to
the ant and dipped the SWR, then brought the drive up, dipped, dipped. Dipole
was cut for 75 and the coax trimmed for the same. Might have been a fluke of my
half flat top half zigzag ant but never quit figured out why this happened. Too
late now. New QTH and no Ant yet.
Bill KB3DKS/1
My Dad was heard to say, many a time, that antennas seems to 'work
better' (I believe he meant 'radiate better', or 'get out' better)
witha little SWR on 'em.
Personally, I've found that if I tune an antenna (and this is especially
true of my bug-catcher) that I find that if I resonate the antenna just
slightly -below- the operating frequency, the antenna seems to radiate
slightly better, than if you were on the bottom side of the SWR dip.
I can almost see the angles and vectors in my mind, all tangling
together but I can't quite seperate it out enough to properly describe
what I'm talking about. But, on your mobile HF antenna, try this... say
your desired frequency was 7.160Mc... tune your antenna for 7.155 for
absolute minimum SWR and make a field-strength check at 7.160. then
re-resonate the antenna for 7.165, and see if the reading at 7.160
hasn't dropped. Why? It's -only- 5kc!
It's like I can almost see it clearly in my mind, but it's just not
quite clear enough to describe. That happens a lot, to me.
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73 = Best Regards,
-Geoff/W5OMR
