--- On Fri, 9/5/08, Ian Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Ian Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Repeater-Builder] Antenna question
> To: Repeater-Builder@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, September 5, 2008, 9:43 AM
> Our group has a Sinclair 8 dipole array for UHF.
>
> The repeater was recently moved, and has not been behaving
> as usual.
> It hears OK, but seems weak on transmit.
>
> One of the members went up to the site last night with an
> MFJ antenna
> analyser - and he measured SWR at 3:1 - with no real
> resonant point.
>
> Our old UHF beam that was on the same tower and same
> feedline had an
> SWR of 1.5:1 measured on the same analyser.
>
> Is this method of measurement on an 8 dipole antenna
> correct? We
> have not put an SWR bridge on it.
>
>
I would use a real swr meter/directional watt meter on it. Sometimes those
analizers will pick up power from other transmitters that are near it and not
give a correct reading.
