RE: [Repeater-Builder] Which Antenna Analyzer?

2010-02-01 Thread John Transue
s.com Subject: Re: [Repeater-Builder] Which Antenna Analyzer? The MFJ analyzers have very limited use around an RF active site. Any RF picked up by the antenna being checked will interfere with the readings on the analyzer. I even had problems recently trying to check the SWR on a horizontal

Re: [Repeater-Builder] Which Antenna Analyzer?

2010-02-01 Thread Jim Brown
The MFJ analyzers have very limited use around an RF active site.  Any RF picked up by the antenna being checked will interfere with the readings on the analyzer.  I even had problems recently trying to check the SWR on a horizontal loop antenna for HF, when a high power AM broadcasting station

RE: [Repeater-Builder] Which Antenna Analyzer?

2010-01-31 Thread Eric Lemmon
John, I think you're setting your sights too high. There are excellent analyzers for HF through low VHF, and excellent analyzers for VHF through UHF, but very few that cover HF through UHF. I once tried the MFJ-269, but gave up on it after the THIRD unit died. The first unit had a defective swi