This all reminds me of the difference between when I was a young teen getting started as a ham vs now.
As a kid I would put things together or throw em up. Only worried about it after it didn’t work. Nowadays, I plan & overthink things to death before getting anything accomplished. I prefer the old way. 73, Josh W6XU Sent from my mobile device > On Apr 1, 2020, at 4:20 PM, Frederick Dwight <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you have 75 ohm coax, I would just try it. If the Z of the antenna is in > fact around 35 ohms, the Z at the shack end may be close to 35 ohms on some > bands, but on others the Z will be transposed to well over 100 ohms with an > SWR probably over 3 to one. One of my dipoles has a SWR at the top of 75 > meters of approximately 4:1, and I occasionally venture up there, but my K3S > with internal tuner does not complain and quickly matches it to about 1:1. > Not ideal and this is not the way I usually build my antennas, but the loss > is not too bad. If you can build a unun with approximately a 1:2 ratio this > should solve your problem. If it does not cover all the way from 80 to 10 > with low loss, I would not worry too ______________________________________________________________ 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]
