[ARC5] A simple receiver improvement

Kenneth G. Gordon kgordon2006 at frontier.com
Tue Jan 14 18:52:08 EST 2014


On 14 Jan 2014 at 18:26, Geoff wrote:

> Ken, the resistive part is low but the antenna is capacitive because
> it is so short and the reactance is thru the roof. When you use a long
> wire, dipole, etc the VSWR at the radio is gonna be very high in the
> opposite direction.

Ah, yes. My mistake. I was remembering (dangerous at my age) the resistive 
part of the antenna, and not the impedance.

Thank you for the correction.

Ken W7EKB


More information about the ARC5 mailing list