I haven't read all the comments on this thread and thus may requesting redundant info. My antenna, for 40 mtr's, is a 67' wire up about 25'. I have 30' of 450 ohm ladder line connected to the end of the antenna and bringing the antenna into my basement. So I guess you could say that I have a non-resonant end fed Zepp.
I can check the impedance at the end of the ladder line, where one side is the antenna and the other side is connected to a ground rod at the point of entering the house. I can measure the impedance of the antenna in the basement, using Mini60 without an antenna tuner . The ladder line is then connected to a MFJ 926B remote antenna tuner The tuner is fed by about 30' of RG58 coax from my transmitter. When I see a reactive component to the impedance of the ladder line, without the tuner connected, should I have some choke inserted in one side of the ladder line or not? Should the tuner be able to handle the reactive component? John AD2F ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
