[Elecraft] High SWR problem

Mon Aug 18 15:28:00 2003

I know - had a brainstorm, meant to write Garden.

Anyway, mystery solved. Without making any changes have managed to tune 3.5,
21, 24, 28 and 50MHz which can't be bad for a piece of copper wire and a
crappy earth !

And the SWR on 3.5 is the worst at about 1:2 (is that the right way around?)
and best on 24 and 28MHz where there's almost no reflected power. 50MHz is
about the same as 3.5MHz. The rest are completely seem to be un-tunable.

So overall am pleased and thanks for everyone's input.

One last question - would a dipole be as flexible and give better results ?
Is there an alternative to a beam on HF that would better a long wire or
dipole ?

Thanks again !

Edward

On 18/8/03 2:58 pm, "Hank Kohl K8DD" <[email protected]> wrote:

> At 8/18/2003 07:43 AM +0100, Edward Kenworthy wrote:
> 
>> Transmitter --(coax)-- atu with swr meter --(coax)-- balun -- 20m of copper
>> running down the guardian.
> 
> guardian?      What's that?
> 
> 
> 
>> There's an earth connector on the atu and the braid leading to the earth rod
>> is attached to that. The coax running from the longwire is attached to a
>> balun at the antenna end, and to a coax connector on the atu.
>> 
>> Not sure what type of balun it is - I bought the longwire ready-made with
>> balun attached.
> 
> Aha .... ready-made .... what brand of ready-made, manufacturer, ?
> 
> 73    Hank    K8DD
> 
> 
> 
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