[ADXA] Applying what I learned to the pennant

[Curtis]

While it was fresh on my mind, today I did some verification and made some changes on the broadside phased pennant. As I have mentioned before my initial results have been less than stellar. 

1. I widened the spacing from 175 feet to 210 feet which is about as much room as I have. 

2. I verified my phasing lines by using the analyzer as per Joel’s brief lesson on analyzer use. Apparently the velocity factor of .81 I used for foam rg6 was pretty close as the analyzer confirmed, so no changes were made there. See pictures 2 and 3 for those measurements. 

3 Per EJ’s presentation, I added some 31 mix ferrites at each antenna feed point, and at the radio end of the feed line. Pic1 is the current readings in the shack. Just think…a few days ago, I couldn’t even spell “commin mode”, and now it is something I’m losing sleep over. 

Gonna let this antenna run and see what happens. The analyzer shows a tiny bit of improvement over the initial install. Pics 4 and 5 are the initial install in the shack and at the tee. Please note that I did not use 1840 to test. For some reason the analyzer doesn’t work there. ; )

Everyone have a great day and good DXing 
Randy W5ZJ
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