[Elecraft] KX2 Antenna Analyzer Program

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Fred, isn't that where the antenna starts, or are you limiting "antenna" to mean the radiator itself?

73, Ron AC7AC

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From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Fred Jensen
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 3:52 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] KX2 Antenna Analyzer Program

Antenna Z?  I think you meant "Impedance at the ATU antenna connector?"

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 2/19/2018 3:02 PM, Walter Underwood wrote:
> I’m pretty sure that Wizkers:Radio can do an SWR scan. I did that with an earlier version of the program.
>
> http://wizkers.github.io/wizkers-doc/ins/elecraft-kx3/
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> An antenna analyzer does a lot more, but an SWR scan is handy.
>
> Hmm, because you can read back the L-C combinations from the ATU, you could estimate the antenna Z from the conjugate match. That would be a lot more like an antenna analyzer.
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> wunder
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