>Dip meters tell you nothing about impedance. Wrong "tool", and not
>much of a tool at the very best. That's why they fell out of the
>mainstream long ago.
They fell out of the mainstream because better equipment came along.
It's not that they didn't tell an accurate picture. A slotted line can
give you a great reading of SWR but a network analyzer will do it much
more easily.
For measuring resonances, GDO's are great. For measuring, impedance, no
they can't do that. Being able to measure resonance is quite a useful
thing, so I think it's a good tool.
73,
Jon
KE9NA
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Jon Ogden
KE9NA
http://www.qsl.net/ke9na
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