This would have been more helpful to Ignacy before the second antenna went up, but taking off from Stan's question ... if you want to get a quick quantitative comparison between two transmitting ante
Pete, Ive found the best way to A/B antennas in real time is to listen on one of the hundreds of online Kiwi SDRs . You can flip from one antenna to the other instantly and the difference is readily
Even better is to use S Meter dropdown in the KIWI extensions menu.... it gives a strip chart style presentation that can be configured to easily show small differences in signal levels, far easier t
It's quite possible that the addition of a beam at 60 ft. could cause capacity hat effect changing the current flow in the tower. It might be worth modeling this. Jim - KR9U _________________ Searcha
I agree entirely - the challenge is to model a tower and two multiband yagis with sufficient fidelity. 73, Pete N4ZR Jim - KR9U I have a 100 ft tower with jk mid tri 40 on top. When shunt fed, it was
Further to Don and Steves comment about using an on-line KIWI WEBSDR to check your signal, I just uploaded a video I had made that shows how this works. This is a short 4 min Video, but shows how eas
This is really cool. Somehow I had managed to miss the emergence of the Kiwi WEBSDR network. Clearly, that *is* a better way 73, Pete N4ZR This is a short 4 min Video, but shows how easy it is to se