Hi Drax,
Some thoughts. Those SWR values at the TX end of a feedline indicate a
significantly higher SWR at the antenna, which in turn suggests that
something is wrong up there. Or perhaps somewhere along the line
something is wrong. The "somethings" could be anything from a badly
installed connector to a bad piece of coax to a junk connector at a
splice. On in the polarization switching.
First step -- get one of those EE types with an antenna analyzer that
can do a Time Delay Reflectometry (TDR) measurement of the line and look
for problems. That TDR will tell you if there is a cable or connector
problem, and it will tell you, with several inches, where it is (he'll
also have to measure the Vf of the line to get that info.
Second, have that EE type make swept impedance measurements, plug them
into SimSmith, and in Sim Smith, translate the measurement made in the
shack to the antenna.
Poking around with the analyzer for a while may give some good clues
about where to look. Sim Smith can help someone who knows how to use it
design a matching network. But I'd try to find and fix the problem
before I tried to put lipstick on a pig.
73, Jim K9YC
On 4/21/2014 8:44 PM, Drax Felton wrote:
When using horizontal polarization
144.100 MHz R=17 X=0 SWR 2.9
When using vertical polarization
144.100 MHz R=36 X=25 SWR 2.0
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