[OKDXA] Impedance Bridge?

Kim Elmore cw_de_n5op at sbcglobal.net
Sun Feb 24 19:53:24 EST 2008


Does anyone near Norman have an impedance bridge I could use? I need 
to figure out what the feed impedance is of my short, shunt-fed 
tower. I have a Palomar noise bridge, but the reading I get from it 
is nonsense: 65 + j685 ohms. The sign that cannot be right, because I 
know that the resonant frequency is ~ 9.5 MHz.  Since I want to make 
an L-network to match it, I need to know what the feed impedance is 
so that I can build what I need.

Whatever the impedance is, it's way out there. My Ameritron ATR-15 
cannot match it at the low end of the band and neither can the 
built-in tuner in my Orion II.

Kim Elmore, N5OP



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