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Re: [CQ-Contest] SO2R Coax Stub location; outside?

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] SO2R Coax Stub location; outside?
From: Jim Brown <k9yc@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: k9yc@arrl.net
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2020 19:46:51 -0800
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On 2/23/2020 11:49 AM, wc1m73@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone confirm that stubs work best 1/4-wave from the transmitter?

That's a serious oversimplification. Here's the detailed answer. It ran in NCJ a few years ago.

http://k9yc.com/LocatingStubs.pdf

And here are slides for a "big picture" overview talk I gave at Visalia last spring.

http://k9yc.com/Multi-Station.pdf

The executive summary: spacing between stub and output stage always matters, and what's best depends on the output network. Spacing between stub and antenna matters IF the antenna is NOT resonant on the harmonic, but does NOT matter if the antenna IS resonant on the harmonic. And two stubs, 1/4 wave apart at the harmonic frequency is much better than a single stub.

73, Jim K9YC
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