I mistakenly gave the wrong christian name for G5RV in reply. Was pointed
out correctly by Peter, G3PDL that it was Louis Varney. Reg Varney was a more
infamous UK TV personality of the past.
Senility creeps up on you and you don't know it is happening until too late!
Bob, G3VVT
After my post yesterday about the accuracy of the Heath Cantenna dummy
load being found to be off value, I started wondering about the original
specifications and did a little search.
Heath spec'd the Cantenna as having a VSWR of 1.5:1 across the HF range.
Now, if the reactance is negligible
Just a thought on dummy loads, a number of years ago I noticed my Heath
Cantenna was giving me a slightly higher SWR reading instead of 1 to 1.
When I measured it with a VTVM I found it was 40 ohms, not the original 50
ohms when I built it 25 or so years ago. I posted this on the Heath users
Steve K4JPM wrote:
...a number of years ago I noticed my Heath Cantenna was giving me a
slightly higher SWR reading instead of 1 to 1. When I measured it with a
VTVM I found it was 40 ohms, not the original 50 ohms when I built it 25 or
so years ago. I posted this on the Heath users Email list
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