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My antenna is not resonant on any amateur band. It gets almost there
around 4.1MHz. (SWR 1.8:1 or something) It's an unequal leg length variously bent doublet made with whatever length of 30 gauge magnet wire I managed to fling out into the trees on that particular occasion. Approximately: one leg 60 feet long about 24 feet high at the feed, about 35 feet high at the other end. The other leg about 50 feet long, bent groundward at a point 35 feet up and 30 feet out with an almost vertical descending portion. The "feedline" is a slightly tapered open wire section of the same magnet wire with more or less 1.25 inch spacing. It's only about 4 feet long. The antenna tuner is hidden in a big blue wooden box on my balcony directly under the antenna feed, so I don't need much of a run of feedline. I set plants on it. The length numbers are *very* approximate. I've paced out the tree-balcony distance and also checked with google earth, but I figured a tape measure might be a bit suspicious. I actually have very little trouble tuning the antenna. I do have a lot of noise and removing all I can of the conducted component would serve me well, I think. 73, Dan N3OX wrote: The imaginary part of these numbers seem a bit odd (oh no, only three of them are odd--the rest are even). Is your antenna resonant on any band? I'm probably not well-versed in all the impedances an antenna/feedline can take at the tuner, but would like to know what antenna and feedline this is. 73, Glenn AC7ZN |
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