OK, several folks came back and recommended detuning my transmit antenna in
receive.
Certainly any receive antenna I have is going to be in the shadow of my
transmit antenna, a 130-foot flat-top about 85 feet up, fed against ground.
(Really it's an 80 meter doublet fed with ladder line. I tie the ladder line
together at the bottom and feed against ground.)
Trying to figure out what "detune" is.
I match the transmit antenna to 50 ohm coax with a L network at the bottom. If
I want to detune, then I can.... open up the connection between the antenna and
the L network at the bottom? Unhook the L or C in the L network? Short out the
antenna where it comes into the L network? I could rig up a relay contact to do
any of those.
Tim N3QE
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