[Elecraft] Antenna Analyzer Opinions?

[Dan KB6NU]

I can attest that this is also a problem with the Autek. I was using my
Autek analyzer to tune an antenna at a multi-op contest station that our
club was setting up. As I was tuning the antenna, every once in a while, the
readings would just go crazy. I started thinking that my meter was beginning
to fail until I noticed that the meter would start acting funny whenever one
of the other stations was transmitting! :) Everyone got a good laugh out of
it.

73!

Dan KB6NU

----- Original Message -----
From: <G3VVT at aol.com>
To: <hashcraft at hansonbridgett.com>; <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Antenna Analyzer Opinions?
>
> There is an inbuilt problem with both of these antenna analyzers and which
> probably applies to the Autek as well in that they are totally unusable in
comm
>  sites or areas where there are other adjacent transmitters in operation
at
> the  time of measurement. They are unable to read the SWR due to also
detecting
> the  external TX at the same time and reading this as a poor SWR.
>
> Bob, G3VVT