Hi all. I'm new to this list but I have being reading your posts at the archives in contesting.com and I must say that I enjoy them very much. Now, I have a question. After 9 years I'm getting back o
Jose': My 80M half-sloper also exhibits a very wide 2:1 SWR bandwidth. If I recall, it's below 2:1 from 3.5 - 3.8 MHz. It's resonant (min SWR) around 3.6 MHz. The sloper wire is about 67 feet long, a
I think there may be some math errors in computing your SWR. Unless I am mistaken, The lowest possible SWR is 1:1, so if you are getting 0.2 to one something is wrong with the formula you are using.