[Elecraft] I am flummoxed about my antenna

[Vic Rosenthal]

1. The resonant point seems to be at 1.80 or below.
2. The broad response indicates high loss somewhere. If you hadn’t said that you changed it, I would suspect water in the coax.

Victor 4X6GP 

> On 1 Dec 2018, at 18:54, Leroy Buller <lee.buller at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> There
> I tried to get on 160 with my Inverted L last night.  60 feet up and the
> rest over to a tree, 130 feet total.  About 20 random length radials in the
> yard.  The best I can do with a city lot.  This antenna worked last year
> very well, but now I get this
> 
> 12/1/2018 10:46:08 AM     NOTES:
> 
> Frequency     SWR
> ---------     ---
> 001800000     1.3
> 001810000     1.4
> 001820000     1.4
> 001830000     1.4
> 001840000     1.4
> 001850000     1.5
> 001860000     1.6
> 001870000     1.6
> 001880000     1.5
> 001890000     1.5
> 001900000     1.6
> 001910000     1.6
> 001920000     1.6
> 001930000     1.6
> 001940000     1.6
> 001950000     1.6
> 001960000     1.6
> 001970000     1.7
> 001980000     1.8
> 001990000     2.0
> 002000000     2.1
> 
> There seems to be NO resonance at all with this antenna.  Before, I could
> operate the bottom of the band but nothing above 1850 without a tuner.  I
> have changed out the coax feeding the antenna which hepl bring signals up,
> but it seems to be a dummy load.
> 
> Anyone have an idea what is going on?  Shucks, I am out of ideas.  Unless
> my ground plane has gone wonky
> 
> My tuner can't find a match for it either.  I have an automatice tuner now,
> but it cannot find a match.  Something is wrong here and I am stumped.
> 
> Any help from the antenna gurus out there?
> 
> Lee - K0WA
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