On my Cushcraft MA160V, the resonant SWR point has lowered from almost 5:1 to
1:1 without the Amidon unUn in line. All 26 of the buried radials are
attached. The main difference is that the normally dry ground is saturated
from 6 inches of rain in the past two weeks. Can the water saturated soil
really make this much of a difference? The last time this antenna showed this
good of an SWR, was when I had no radials attached, in dry dirt, as expected-
Of course attaching radials only began to show the true impedance mismatch,
thus the need for the Amidon UnUn to match the coax to the antenna- Bottom
line, the antenna is acting like I disconnected the radials, which are very
much intact- My guess is that as the soil drys out, my SWR at sresonance will
once again rise, and i will need the UnUn again for matching reasons- does this
sound right>?
73 Paul N0AH
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