I can now verify that the FA-VA5 does just fine on my 160 meter inverted-L.
As an aside, we've had some rain here in Tucson lately and I've observed a
decrease in the feedpoint Z of about 5 ohm due to increased ground
conductivity. Welcome, but I know it's temporary.
Wes N7WS
On
On 10/15/2018 10:43 AM, Tree wrote:
I replaced the variable cap with a home made cap using RG8. I had one
Sometimes, capacitors made from coax are lossy. I modeled your
coaxial capacitor using Simsmith (very easy to do) and the Q turns out
to be 340, if I did it correctly. So the
Maybe someone can put together a web page with examples of successful gamma
match configurations for towers.
Here is what I found this weekend with my new tower.
Tower height - 97 feet.
Top loading - 10 foot mast and essentially a 34 foot 3" boom at 98 feet.
This is my Steppir with all of the
Greg,
I re-did the exercise at 470m distance from both ends of the beverage
and the F/B has increased to 7db. I was tired to go further in a VERY
muddy ground but I will test again at near-field edge (around 840m) when
it gets drier.
Thanks
73 Ash 3V8SF
www.kf5eyy.info
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